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Watertown NY Sunday School teacher fired after 54 years when church decides women should not teach men or boys
Ah, America: where one group of people uses their religious freedom to do something dumb at their church, and another group of people uses their freedom of speech to laugh at them on their blogs.
Deep in her high-tech Batcave, H2otown is constantly scanning the universe with various barely-out-of-the-lab sensor arrays for all things Watertown. Of course, she's interested in the Finest of All Watertowns, but occasionally noise from other, inferior Watertowns intrude.
A couple of days ago, a story went supernova in Watertown, NY, and the signal is just not dying down. Here's the story:
The pastor of the First Baptist Church of Watertown, NY, one Rev. Tim LaBouf, fired Mary Lambert, 81. Lambert had been teaching Sunday School at the church for 54 years -- longer, in fact, than Rev. LaBouf has been alive -- but Rev. LaBouf has suddenly realized that a passage of Scripture means that women are not allowed to teach men or boys. So, sayonara Mrs. Lambert.
Cue the blogosphere. Oh, but it's not limited to mere bloggers: here's the the local news affiliate , UPI, Reuters, the the AP, MSNBC, ABC Evening News, local television affiliates across the nation and even as far away as the Mumbai Mirror in India.
Oh, dear. You see, this is what they mean when they say no news is good news.
Better? Rev. LaBouf is also on Watertown, NY's City Council. That next council meeting's Public Forum ought to be a lot of fun. Maybe they'll have it on pay-per view. The Rev has a blog, too.
Deep in her high-tech Batcave, H2otown is constantly scanning the universe with various barely-out-of-the-lab sensor arrays for all things Watertown. Of course, she's interested in the Finest of All Watertowns, but occasionally noise from other, inferior Watertowns intrude.
A couple of days ago, a story went supernova in Watertown, NY, and the signal is just not dying down. Here's the story:
The pastor of the First Baptist Church of Watertown, NY, one Rev. Tim LaBouf, fired Mary Lambert, 81. Lambert had been teaching Sunday School at the church for 54 years -- longer, in fact, than Rev. LaBouf has been alive -- but Rev. LaBouf has suddenly realized that a passage of Scripture means that women are not allowed to teach men or boys. So, sayonara Mrs. Lambert.
Cue the blogosphere. Oh, but it's not limited to mere bloggers: here's the the local news affiliate , UPI, Reuters, the the AP, MSNBC, ABC Evening News, local television affiliates across the nation and even as far away as the Mumbai Mirror in India.
Oh, dear. You see, this is what they mean when they say no news is good news.
Better? Rev. LaBouf is also on Watertown, NY's City Council. That next council meeting's Public Forum ought to be a lot of fun. Maybe they'll have it on pay-per view. The Rev has a blog, too.
You're exactly right...this is becoming like a version of celebrity death match, or something. I'm curious to see how many emails Rev. LeBouf is getting, given that the Watertown City Council Web site, http://www.citywatertown.org/officials.html, lists his email.
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