Female Sunday school teacher fired for being a woman

NOTE: CNN link here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/21/menonly.sundayschool.ap/index.html

Link to site that digger meant to use: http://www.greenllama.net/blog/2006/08/21/female-sunday-school-teacher-fired-for-being-a-woman/

I actually heard that she had been teaching Sunday School for 11 years, but been a member of the congregation for longer.

Regardless: The minister is entitled to alter how his church is run according to his interpretation of the Bible. Just like each and every member of his flock is entitled to do one or more of many things.

They could find another congregation. Hard to do in smaller communities, and it does hurt to leave your church, especially if it is also a place for community activity and support. But if enough people want to leave, they can strengthen their community elsewhere.

They could hold a church meeting and if the minister is open to it (unlikely) they can use this as an opportunity to discuss scripture and how their community feels about that particular passage, and ones like it, in this day and age.

They could get a new minister. Again, something that might fracture part of the community, a sad sad thing. But I would not want this man as my spiritual leader (not that he'd be terribly interested in what I had to say I'm sure.)

The other thing that truly bothers me is that this woman was not even consulted or warned about this. I originally read about this on CNN, and in there, or I think on the actual community's news site, (I didn't bookmark them) and she said she had no warning, which is not the way you treat someone in your congregation.

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