[Vision2020] Logos School's all male board

[Douglas]

Dear visionaries,

In making the Nazi connection, Rosemary failed to mention that when I was 
in the Navy (and Germany also had a Navy, did it not?) I owned a Volkswagen.

I think that Andreas missed one of my key phrases. I said that "I actually 
think this is appropriate." I believe the outside interest in what Logos is 
doing is not a bad thing at all. I don't think anything is wrong with that 
interest, and I think the Logos community should welcome it. I was just 
urging those people who have spent their entire lives out in the 
progressive sticks to not make a scene when they encounter something new in 
a downtown Paris restaurant. "Whut's thet!? Ain no cheese atall! Kin I get 
some Velveeter?"

Melynda says that a number of people would be interested "to hear about" 
any Christian-ritual-law exclusion of women from school boards. I dare say 
they would, but many of them would be interested only for purposes of 
mocking -- or for making the never-far-away handy-dandy Nazi comparison.

But for those who really are interested, conservative Christians believe 
that the apostle Paul prohibits women from serving as elders or pastors of 
churches (1 Tim. 2:12-15). This is the nearest scriptural prohibition to 
our point of discussion, and it does not apply. The text is not addressing 
school boards but rather sessions of elders. The serious concern at Logos 
is whether our informal emphasis (encouraging men to be involved in the 
education of their children) has resulted in a de facto situation that 
leaves the school in a vulnerable position. Courts have regularly found de 
facto circumstances as evidence of illegal discrimination, and they have 
also had a regrettable tendency to not understand the distinction between 
private and public. So, this is one proposed precaution -- which hasn't 
even passed yet. "Yes, but you were *thinking* about it, you Nazi!"

So, here would be the basic argument for all male school boards, the 
premises of which were first laid down by Mark Twain. In short, we have too 
high a view of women. Twain: "First, God made idiots. That was for 
practice. Then He made school boards." We want to limit access to the board 
to those who pre-qualify.

Cordially,

Douglas Wilson