Not really sure where to put this - I have been really impressed with my town's mayor and how he has handled the whole coronavirus thing with shutdowns and going against the governor in some ways. He kept the community updated. He even started doing a little Internet show for young kids to try to explain some things to them and help allay their fears.
Yeah, well, a city council member asked him if some young people could be brought in from time to time to lead the prayer before the meeting. Yeah, I know, so much for the separation of church and state...I get it...it's worse than that...I copied several parts of one article in case the link doesn't work. On a local Facebook group at least one person has already mentioned contacted the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
I hate to admit I was blindsided by this. I cannot take away from him all good he has done for this town in the last decade plus but this is unacceptable.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2020/05/...ic-prayer/
**Forrester emailed Hogue last week about the group, Youth With a Mission, asking for the mayor’s thoughts about arranging for its members to attend the council’s next meeting.
On Sunday, Hogue replied, saying it was a good idea — as long as “those leading the public prayer be young men.”
**Wylie mayor defends belief that women shouldn’t lead public prayer
**The first, 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, says: “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.”
The mayor also quoted a passage from 1 Timothy that says, “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”
**“What I will say is a woman can do absolutely anything and everything — but if we’re in a public setting, in a religious setting, the Bible teaches that she’s not to say a public prayer or to lead the singing or to deliver the sermon,” he said.
Yeah, well, a city council member asked him if some young people could be brought in from time to time to lead the prayer before the meeting. Yeah, I know, so much for the separation of church and state...I get it...it's worse than that...I copied several parts of one article in case the link doesn't work. On a local Facebook group at least one person has already mentioned contacted the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
I hate to admit I was blindsided by this. I cannot take away from him all good he has done for this town in the last decade plus but this is unacceptable.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2020/05/...ic-prayer/
**Forrester emailed Hogue last week about the group, Youth With a Mission, asking for the mayor’s thoughts about arranging for its members to attend the council’s next meeting.
On Sunday, Hogue replied, saying it was a good idea — as long as “those leading the public prayer be young men.”
**Wylie mayor defends belief that women shouldn’t lead public prayer
**The first, 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, says: “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.”
The mayor also quoted a passage from 1 Timothy that says, “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”
**“What I will say is a woman can do absolutely anything and everything — but if we’re in a public setting, in a religious setting, the Bible teaches that she’s not to say a public prayer or to lead the singing or to deliver the sermon,” he said.
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
