{"id":316,"date":"2006-08-22T07:55:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T12:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/316"},"modified":"2006-08-22T07:55:27","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T12:55:27","slug":"andwoman-why-arent-you-wearing-your-burka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/316","title":{"rendered":"And…Woman Why Aren’t You Wearing Your Burka…?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is this what the faith I was raised in is coming to?  I guess…<\/p>\n

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Sunday School Teacher Fired For Being A Woman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

First he dismissed 81-year-old Mary Lambert from the Diaconate Board of the First Baptist Church along with two members, claiming there were attendance issues.<\/p>\n

Now the Rev. Timothy LaBouf has dismissed Mary Lambert as a Sunday School teacher for an adult class after she’s been on the job for over 50 years, claiming that his interpretation of the Bible is that a woman is prohibited from teaching men.<\/p>\n

Lambert has been a church member for 54 years and a long time Sunday School teacher but got a letter dated Aug. 9 from LaBouf and the board saying that the Bible says a woman can perform any job, as long as its outside of the church.<\/p>\n

LaBouf, who has been pastor at the church for about two years, and is also a member of the Watertown City Council, quotes the first epistle to Timothy which hold "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent".<\/p>\n

Lambert received the letter signed by Kendra LaBouf, wife of the pastor. "A woman should learn in quietness and full submission" the letter said. "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became sinner".
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Well…what the man does in his own church is his business I suppose…right?  I’m sure his knuckle dragging fundamentalist hatred for women won’t influence his decisions as a city councilman<\/a>…\n<\/p>\n

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The Rev. Timothy LaBouf, who also serves on the Watertown City Council, issued a statement saying his stance against women teaching men in Sunday school would not affect his decisions as a city leader in Watertown, where all five members of the council are men but the city manager who runs the city’s day-to-day operations is a woman.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course it won’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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