Comments on: Fresno Episcopalians Leave the Church http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/12/08/1124 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sat, 25 May 2013 21:17:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Bill Ware http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/12/08/1124/comment-page-1#comment-4813 Bill Ware Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:03:02 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/12/08/1124#comment-4813 My mother graduated from Goucher College in 1926 with a degree in romance languages. Back then a woman with a college degree could be a nurse or a teacher. She taught French and Latin in high school in Great Neck, NY and lived in a boarding house with other single women. After a few years, she married my father and left teaching to be with him in NJ. She mentioned they had changed the rules by then, female teachers could remain at work after marriage. However, once the teacher was "with child" she would be required to leave work and stay home to look after the family as wives were expected to do. When my first grand daughter was baptized in 1994, I was so pleased that the church had a female pastor. It reminded me how opportunities for my grand daughter had improved dramatically since my mother's time. Now I see that this diocese in Central California doesn't allow for the ordination of women. What a pity. It's 1926 all over again. My mother graduated from Goucher College in 1926 with a degree in romance languages. Back then a woman with a college degree could be a nurse or a teacher. She taught French and Latin in high school in Great Neck, NY and lived in a boarding house with other single women. After a few years, she married my father and left teaching to be with him in NJ.

She mentioned they had changed the rules by then, female teachers could remain at work after marriage. However, once the teacher was “with child” she would be required to leave work and stay home to look after the family as wives were expected to do.

When my first grand daughter was baptized in 1994, I was so pleased that the church had a female pastor. It reminded me how opportunities for my grand daughter had improved dramatically since my mother’s time.

Now I see that this diocese in Central California doesn’t allow for the ordination of women. What a pity. It’s 1926 all over again.

]]> By: John http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/12/08/1124/comment-page-1#comment-4778 John Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:36:26 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/12/08/1124#comment-4778 I'll say this for them: at least they aren't going with Akinola. I have very few positive things to say about that man. I’ll say this for them: at least they aren’t going with Akinola. I have very few positive things to say about that man.

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