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I love it when a man learns to time travel. Or something:

The First Baptist Church dismissed Mary Lambert on August 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."

Props to the church for being literal to the Bible.

In case you think this happened in Boondocks USA, South of the Mason-Dixon line, let me dispell that assumption. Waterdown, upstate New York. Right over the border folks. Yee haw!

Mayor Jeffrey Graham, however, was bothered by the reasons given Lambert's dismissal.

"If what's said in that letter reflects the councilman's views, those are disturbing remarks in this day and age," Graham said. "Maybe they wouldn't have been disturbing 500 years ago, but they are now."

I think 500 years ago is a little extreme, surely even 80 years ago people had a problem with Women in authority over men. Heck, even today! But you know, whatever. Good on him for pointing out how archaic it seems.

To be fair, the article at CNN ends with this:

In a statement, the board said other issues were behind Lambert's dismissal, but it did not say what they were.

I'd really like to know what these other issues were if your cover story is "Women teaching Men Bad! *caveman grunt*".

(Hat Tip: Pharyngula)