So, why can't a woman teach men Hebrew?
A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit against Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and its president can go forward.(via)
The 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.
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The 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.
I 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.
