Occasionally, one will see reference to some of the nastier, more judgemental types in the religious right being part of the "AmTaliban(tm)".
I've always kind of laughed at it as a cute slam - then I read this on CNN this morning.
In the letter of termination given to the long-time Sunday school teacher, "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." ".
So, some lady spends over 5 decades teaching sunday school, only to be terminated by some nutbar who figures that a woman couldn't possibly be "in a position of superiority to men" in the church.
Reminds me of the tales coming out of the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
It's amazing to me - the New Testament is clearly allegorical in form, much more so than the Old Testament, and yet we still find people out there bound and determined to use those phrases to justify being little more than petty assholes towards their fellow human beings.
Oh yes, apparently the minister involved also happens to sit on his local town council. I can imagine just how well balanced his counsel is.
The mind boggles.
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Totally crazy, but then we haven't progressed much over the centuries. I read recently that a judge in England in 1782 ruled that, "if there was good cause, a husband could legally beat his wife so long as the stick was no thicker than his thumb". And we critise other countries for their treatment of women.
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