Fight the Religious Right

Allow Us Our Anger: Church to Female: Sit down and Shut Up

by: irishwitch
Mon Aug 21, 2006 at 11:46:57 AM PDT
from My Left Wing

(Because the war against women in this country needs to be seen for what it is, shameless. If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention. - promoted by caliberal)

Those wild and crazy fundamentalist Baptists are at it again. The preacher at the First Baptist Church, one Reverend Timothy LaBoeuf, of Watertown, N.Y., told Mary Lambert that she could no longer serve as a Sunday School teacher at the church.

From CNN:

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.

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