This made me laugh out loud. I thought it was satire, like The Onion, but then I realized they were serious.

Hello?

The First Baptist Church dismissed Mary Lambert on Aug. 9 with a letter explaining that the church had adopted an interpretation that prohibits women from teaching men. She had taught there for 54 years.

The letter quoted the first epistle to Timothy: “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.”

Fifty. Four. Years.

She was a teacher for fifty four years, and presumably not required to “be silent” that whole time.

Pardon my french, but What the fuck?

It gets better. The kid that fired her is on the city council!

The Rev. Timothy LaBouf, who also serves on the Watertown City Council, issued a statement saying his stance against women teaching men in Sunday school would not affect his decisions as a city leader in Watertown, where all five members of the council are men but the city manager who runs the city’s day-to-day operations is a woman.

“I believe that a woman can perform any job and fulfill any responsibility that she desires to” outside of the church, LaBouf wrote Saturday.

I say “kid” because I doubt he has been there all these 54 years. BTW, here’s his blog (we’re discussing the ‘seven deadly sins” this week) and here’s the church’s web page. It’s nice to see they support our troops, although I suspect it’s only the males they really support.