[Vision2020] Women on School Boards

[J Ford]

In Doug Wilson's Blog/Malog dated 3/25, he states - in reference to women 
serving on school boards - the following:


"Susannah 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)."

My reaction to the above is as it always has been:  PAUL said this, not God. 
  And it was in response to the CHURCH make-up, not schools or other 
community organizations.  Fact is, women are in the Bible many, many times 
in leadership/resuceing/nurturing positions.  School boards are an excellant 
venue for women to continue this tradition - public or private ones.

He continues:

"So, that said, 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."

My reaction to this statement is if he has such a low view of men, why NOT 
allow women onto the Logas school board?  They certainly can't do any worse, 
even from his view point.

Do I view Mark Twain as a Gospel writer - not hardly...but it seems like 
Doug does.

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