{"id":3423,"date":"2007-09-18T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/judge-rejects-sbts-motion-to-d.html"},"modified":"2007-09-18T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T23:44:00","slug":"judge-rejects-sbts-motion-to-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/judge-rejects-sbts-motion-to-d.html","title":{"rendered":"Judge rejects SBT’s motion to dismiss lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, why can’t a woman teach men Hebrew<\/a>?<\/p>\n

A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit against Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and its president can go forward.
\nThe seminary had filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, filed by former professor Sheri Klouda, who alleges she lost her tenure-track position because she is a woman. Gary Richardson, Klouda’s lawyer, said the seminary’s lawyers tried a number of arguments, including separation of church and state, in an attempt to get the lawsuit thrown out.
\n[…]
\nThe seminary follows the Southern Baptist doctrine that limits the office of senior pastor to men and Patterson’s interpretation that, consequently, only men should instruct future pastors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(via<\/a>)
\nI can’t see how the seminary will win this one because it’s clearly discrimination. They admitted they fired her because she was a woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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