[Ol' Dan Tucker]

It's simple and this desire you have to take offense at the parallel I drew impedes your ability to see the bigger picture.

I take no offense at what you write. You're the one who brought church dress codes into the discussion and I asked if your church had a written dress code. You posted links explaining why men should remove their hats while in church.

Those links contained other Biblical commandments for how women should dress/behave while in church and I simply asked if your church requires women who attend to observe these commandments/traditions.

You never did answer my questions about whether the women in your church observe the commandments about head-covering, nice apparel, jewelry and holding their tongues that I found at the sites you posted. Your silence implies that they do not.

Do we have freedom of assembly, or do we not?

Now who's going off the deep end?

Most restaurants have a posted requirement for shirts and shoes because that comes from the health dept. I have yet to see a restaurant that had a posted requirement for men to doff their hats when inside the establishment.

[so_real]

Good, I'm glad you are not offended. My silence implies only that I do not wish to provide a church as the target for your cannons. In church it's not about the attire; it's about the pride and humility. You are stuck on "the hat". I am stuck on the right of any private establishment to have and enforce a dress code. Certainly there are exceptions to man's rules, but we humbly request those exceptions and live the response favorable or not. Using social outrage to denigrate dress codes does not bode well long term.