TL

Amazing. Sounds like the KKK, the Taliban, etc. Of course one would not want a slave to participate in having an opinion of whether he should be freed or not. That is the picture the world will see.

Perhaps, there were more women than men in the congregation and the men who wanted to keep their superior position figured they could keep their privileges best by not allowing those women to speak and by exercising coercion on their fellow men. The sad thing is that they don’t seem to realize that their arrogance is obvious to many.