[driftdiver]

"This preacher doesn't want women to teach, the Taliban do not want women to teach. That makes them _______________."

frogs?

I'm not a preacher despite your insulting manner towards 'preachers'. I'm a lay person who tries to treat others with respect. Whatever your back ground or belief system its obvious that treating others with respect is not part of it.

[sola_fide]

driftediver, I've really appreciated your comments on this thread. It is easy for people who have no understanding of the Church to criticize actions such as the one discussed here. In fact, I completely understand why the secular world is scandalized by such things. But, as you have tried to point out, the Church does not "operate" like secular society.

If I may add one thing to what you've already said: it is important that the Bible is not taken as a Church "how to manual." The Bible can never be understood or properly interpreted outside of the Church to whom it was given. In other words, when one reads the Scriptures it should be in the context of what the Church catholic has always taught. In the words of St. Vincent of Lerins, we hold to what the Church has taught "everwhere, always, and by all."

Again, thanks for your thoughtful comments.