 08-24-2006, 01:21 AM | #10 |
Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Why do YOU want to know...? Gender:  Posts: 12,318 Thanks: 540 Thanked 899 Times in 612 Posts Points: 34,408.62 Bank: 611,985.83 Total Points: 646,394.45 | Quote: The First Baptist Church dismissed Mary Lambert on Aug. 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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