Those wild and crazy Baptists

"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 sinner".
-- scripture quoted in a letter to 81-year-old Mary Lambert, who was booted from adult Sunday school position because she's a woman.

A lot of you sent this one in. I actually saw the CNN story about this when getting dressed yesterday. It was unbelievable. The pastor of First Baptist Church in Watertown, NY, Rev. Timothy LaBouf sounded like a dumbass, trying to defend the church's position. It was one of those times when a "no comment" would have sufficed. He was not convincing. (CNN):

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.


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

Mayor Jeffrey Graham, however, was bothered by the reasons given for 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."

Let's see, do you really think his beliefs have no influence on his decisions for Watertown?