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In reply to the discussion: Texas mayor says women can't lead prayer at council meetings [View all]Collimator
(1,639 posts)57. He's not incorrect about the Bible verses advising women not to teach and lead in church.
As a number of others have pointed out, council meetings are not church.
Still, I find it amusing considering the high regard that Trump's Major Cheerleader/Spiritual Advisor Paula White holds with the Bible crowd given that she--a woman-- is a very loud, obvious leader in her oh-so-Christian-church.
If you want to claim the authority of the divinity written about in the Bible, then you have to respect the authority of the words supposedly dictated by that divinity to the writers of the Bible. You can't have it one way in one situation, and another way in a different situation.
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Thank you. I hate this damned autocorrect, and I don't always catch its "corrections".
niyad
May 2020
#51
I will keep that in mind. I like new words as well. Just wish we did not need so many to describe
niyad
May 2020
#54
I hope he had no political aspirations outside of his county, because this one will haunt him.
C Moon
May 2020
#22
Public prayer should be interfaith, not catering to one person's interpretation.
Karadeniz
May 2020
#31
Um, somebody should tell that smarmy jackass about a little thing called the First Amendment.
catbyte
May 2020
#38
He's not incorrect about the Bible verses advising women not to teach and lead in church.
Collimator
May 2020
#57