[Vision2020] Women on School Boards

[LuJane Nisse publisher]

Possibly Twain is quoted for levity purposes... not gospel.


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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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