Posted on 08/21/2006 4:14:30 PM PDT by Jaded
ping....
I won't share this with my Mother, who taught Sunday school and VBS for 30 years.
Her blood pressure couldn't take the hit.
Scriptural my ***. This is a power play by a city councilman turn "pastor", an effort to shut up the old guard in the church.
I imagine the new pastor/politician has some special "new" ideas he'd like to implement, and the old people in church were keeping him from putting them in place...
Hypocrisy is a sin. If this man thinks that using the scriptures to attack the parishioners for his own gain is appropriate, then he needs to be fired.
That's probably next on his agenda ~ to abolish it while going to 4 hour prayer meetings on Wednesday evenings.
I see a "Second Baptist Church" in this town's future!
Am,erican Taliban.
"But, last Thursday Lambert received a letter from the Diaconate Board telling her that she was dismissed from her position because the board had adopted the scriptural qualifications for Sunday school teachers. In short, this prohibits women from teaching men"
It's all Rick Warren's fault! It's all Rick Warren's fault! I can smell the PDC influence a mile away.
When asked to further comment, the pastor said that there were other "issues" involved in the firing.
This because he's on some political council, and he wants to prove that his religious beliefs on women are confined to the religious world and will not affect his secular views of women.
1. If they said it was because "women shouldn't teach men," but then say there were actually "other issue" that led to the woman's release, does that mean they lied about why they let her go.
2. If women are not capable of teaching men on Sunday, then are they not infected from Monday to Saturday, also? In his perfect world, would women be prevented from teaching 7 days a week?
"2. If women are not capable of teaching men on Sunday, then are they not infected from Monday to Saturday, also? In his perfect world, would women be prevented from teaching 7 days a week?"
I don't know but someone e-mailed me this guide. I haven't shown it to K yet and I think I will sign off for a while until the storm passes by!
The Good Wife's Guide
From Housekeeping Monthly, 13 May, 1955.
View the original article as a graphic
http://j-walk.com/other/goodwife/index.htm.
Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready on time for his return. This is a way of letting him know that you have be thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they get home and the prospect of a good meal is part of the warm welcome needed.
Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so you'll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your make-up, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh-looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people.
Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one of your duties is to provide it.
Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives. Run a dustcloth over the tables.
During the cooler months of the year you should prepare and light a fire for him to unwind by. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you a lift too. After all, catering to his comfort will provide you with immense personal satisfaction.
Minimize all noise. At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of the washer, dryer or vacuum. Encourage the children to be quiet.
Be happy to see him. Greet him with a warm smile and show sincerity in your desire to please him.
Listen to him. You may have a dozen important things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first - remember, his topics of conversation are more important than yours.
Don't greet him with complaints and problems. Don't complain if he's late for dinner or even if he stays out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through at work.
Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or lie him down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him.
Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice.
Don't ask him questions about his actions or question his judgment or integrity. Remember, he is the master of the house and as such will always exercise his will with fairness and truthfulness. You have no right to question him.
A good wife always knows her place.
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Don't ask him questions about his actions or question his judgment or integrity. Remember, he is the master of the house and as such will always exercise his will with fairness and truthfulness. You have no right to question him.
They got that just about right, didn't they?
:>)
The link works but you have to click on the j-walk.com, then on the humor, and then on the "good wife". Then duck, incoming!
Being female is a fireable offense now?
About time.
(Ducking for cover)
Yeh, I had a little problem with that and was going to edit the phrase but decided to keep it in for faux authenticity since it was supposedly written in Housekeeping Monthly, 13 May, 1955.
"American Taliban."
Bingo! I see no differance between this sort of attitude and theirs. The more fundamentalist groups seem to have this sort of attitude, though they do their best to hide it. In many churches, especially smaller ones, you have the head guy calling the shots, making the rules, etc. Maybe this woman was too independant for his taste. I would bet that whatever church body makes the decisions just does what he says anyway. Stories like this just serve to remind me of one reason why I abandoned the church years ago. I always admired the father on the Waltons......had his faith and beliefs, but stayed away from the church. If it works for people, fine. Me? I can do without it. One thing I found REALLY surprising is how long it took for this story to hit FR. While reading DU early in the day I saw this right off the bat. The DUmmies were as predictable as they always are. More mocking than anything else but that is typical of them.
"Growing up I was primarily educated by the Sisters of Saint Joseph"
"Our Lady of Sorrows".....a catholic school in northern NJ during the 50's and early 60's. AND I have the ruler scars to prove it. One thing, just about everyone who was educated by the penguins left with good penmanship.
You shall know them by their fruit. Of course that bushel is just inside the door of the church as you pass by on the way out. This is so completely Kerry-esque "my Faith is a private matter that does not... blah blah blah, checked at the door blah blah blah
I saw it on the national news after work. It is surprising that it wasn't here before.
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