Sam

Since I just recently ran across this site, may I ask a couple of questions?

Based on my previous comment, you have probably figured out that I think men and women are equals, including in the church. Gender should not be a consideration in any role or position in the church (unless we’re talking about who sleeps with the kids in the boys or girls cabin at summer camp, or some such thing) in my understanding. Understanding the Scripture to teach otherwise, in my opinion, is to misunderstand Scripture.

Likewise, I understand men and women to be equals in their relationships to each other, including in marriage. I think it reasonable that husbands and wives should submit to each other in some ways, but think it unreasonable that women alone should submit to or obey their spouses, as apparently some teach.

Therefore, I am wondering who your readers and and those who comment are. Are they women in ministry positions and or/leadership positions or ???? I have read that there are 300,000 to 350,000 “churches” in the USA. Do you know what percentage of them do not allow women equal access to leadership roles? I grew up in a denomination where this has never been an issue, and did not even know it was an issue in some denominations until I was an adult. Of course I now know that there are churches that subscribe to all manner of strange teachings, and often claim to find these teachings in the Bible.

Then my primary question – Why on earth would any woman put up with this nonsense? But then I suppose that goes to the question as to why anyone would put up with any sort of an abusive relationship.