Church Fires Teacher for Being Female

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1. Corinthians, 14:34-35: "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."

1. Timothy, 2:11-14: "A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 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 a sinner."

These are from the New Testament, a book that is the focal point of Protestant Christianity, and where the majority of out-of-context quotes are derived.

Wiki: Books of the Bible

There is a biblical quote for any situation, provided that the person spouting the biblical non-sense takes the word of "God" out of context, as is the norm.

It is frequently done to justify actions that would otherwise in today's western world be deemed... "discriminatory", such as dismissing someone from a position because that person is a woman.

And one of the above quotes, Timothy, 2:11-14 was used in the letter given to the woman, Mary Lambert, who had taught at the United Baptist Church in Watertown, NY for 54 years, significantly longer than the time the pastor had been at this location.



Church Fires Teacher for Being Female

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The letter of dismissal was signed by the church's clerk, Kendra Labouf, the wife of Reverend Timothy Labouf. The letter wasn't even signed by the pastor himself. However, he had endorse Lambert's dismissal.

"I believe that a woman can perform any job and fulfill any responsibility that she desires to" outside of the church, LaBouf wrote Saturday.

It seems that the state doesn't endorse the church's position and unlike the church, the state is in the 21st century.

Mayor Jeffrey Graham, however, was bothered by the reasons given Lambert's dismissal.

"If what's said in that letter reflects the councilman's views, those are disturbing remarks in this day and age," Graham said. "Maybe they wouldn't have been disturbing 500 years ago, but they are now."

Further proof why religion is a pox on the backside of humanity...

Interestingly though, while the context for Lambert's dismissal was around the gender issue, she believe that her dismissal wasn't for that reason alone and that perhaps internal politics were playing a significant role in the issue.

Either way, who would dismiss someone volunteering to spread the word of "God"? Especially in a day and age where people put little "value" on the morals that the church intends to impart onto the mass, and help guide people away from a life of "sin"? I guess they figured she was doing her job too well and needed a nice little misogynist