[Vision2020] Women on School Boards

[J Ford]

Then why does he give weight to Twain's words by following them?

>From: "LuJane Nisse publisher" <lujane at lataheagle.com>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Women on School Boards
>Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:11:35 -0800
>
>Possibly Twain is quoted for levity purposes... not gospel.
>
>
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>Subject: [Vision2020] Women on School Boards
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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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