Well, fancy that.....
June 4, 2008
Those of us (yes, I include myself) with busts of the great Thomas Jefferson on our fireplaces and who think that separation of church and state is a most excellent thing, will no doubt be encouraged at the news coming out of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, as reported in Christianity Today:
Dismissed • Sheri Klouda's lawsuit againstSouthwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and its president, PaigePatterson, for wrongful termination. Klouda, a former Hebrew professorin Southwestern's theology department now at Taylor University, wasfired because Patterson believed her teaching role exceeded the SBC'slimitations on women in church leadership. U.S. District Judge JohnMcBryde dismissed the case as an ecclesiastical matter, saying that anyinvestigation would be an "unconstitutional intrusion into the affairsof the seminary as a religious organization."
Reminds me of a line in `Subterranean Homesick Blues.'
Dismissed • Sheri Klouda's lawsuit againstSouthwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and its president, PaigePatterson, for wrongful termination. Klouda, a former Hebrew professorin Southwestern's theology department now at Taylor University, wasfired because Patterson believed her teaching role exceeded the SBC'slimitations on women in church leadership. U.S. District Judge JohnMcBryde dismissed the case as an ecclesiastical matter, saying that anyinvestigation would be an "unconstitutional intrusion into the affairsof the seminary as a religious organization."
Reminds me of a line in `Subterranean Homesick Blues.'
