“Be silent, woman!” instructs Baptists
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Loading ...A Sunday school teacher of 54 years is dismissed by a Rev. Timothy LaBouf, who also is a city councilman in Watertown NY. The reason? She is a woman and, as a woman, has no business teaching men in spiritual matters. Don’t believe me? Read the article:
The First Baptist Church dismissed Mary Lambert on August 9 with a letter explaining that the church had adopted an interpretation that prohibits women from teaching men. She had taught there for 54 years.
The letter quoted the first epistle to Timothy: “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.”
In a rare show of egalitarian sensitivity, Rev. LaBouf did concede that a woman can fulfill whatever responsibility she desires, but “outside the church.” Perhaps he said these things because, irony of ironies, the good reverend’s boss in the city government is a woman.
Every city council meeting, Rev. Neanderthal must be wishing he could say things like “Fie thee, Whore of Babylon! Speak not with thy forked tongue, lest the wrath of the Almighty smite thee asunder!” but he probably slinks back in his chair like the sad, cowardly man that he is when he’s not behind the pulpit.
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August 21, 2006 8:14 pm
By Keagirl, August 29, 2006 @ 12:21 am
I can’t comment on this without getting all steamed up, so I won’t try. Needless to say, I ain’t no Baptist…