[Vision2020] Fantasy vs. Reality

[J Ford]

Quiry....if a woman can not be trusted to be on a school board, in a 
leadership role, then please explain to me and the world just how can they 
be trusted to teach the children in the homeschools?  Logos is bascially a 
large homeschool environment (by their own admission) and not one of the 
teachers holds educational degrees - yet the women in that school can not be 
trusted to be on the board?

And what the hell does "it is not a question of whether it is a "sin" to 
have a woman on the board, but rather a question of wisdom and prudence in 
our current cultural circumstances"   MEAN!?

Please someone explain what "current cultural circumstances" are you 
referring to and how are women not able to "overcome" these and be on a 
SCHOOL BOARD, yet the seem very capable of running a home?!  As most 
enlightened people know, running a home requires bookkeeping/financial, 
social, educational, medicinal, mechanical, culinary, religious (in this 
case, certainly) and recreational abilities all rolled up into one person - 
that being MOM.

Yet, apparently, women can not deal with the issues of a school board??!!

UGH!!!  Someone explain that!!!! to me....please.  I am very serious - 
explain this "logic" to me.

And why is it that if mom is on the board, it precludes dad from being 
involved?  What, dad just seems to give up EVERY aspect of raising the 
children if mom is also on the school board?  Whose fault is that?  Not 
MOM'S!  She's too busy taking care of everything else concerning those 
children...seems to me, dad should just pitch in no matter if women are on 
the board or not.

Man, what kinda cop-out is that!?


J  :]





>From: Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu>
>To: Vision 2020 <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Fantasy vs. Reality
>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:03:21 -0800
>
>News of Christ Cult news.of.christ.cult at gmail.com
>Tue Feb 13 11:08:46 PST 2007
>
>*Changes in the By-Laws* *Notes, Memos, and Moments from Logos
>School, January/February/March 2003
>
>              As the Logos School Board considers an amendment to our
>by-laws
>that would limit board membership to men, the board thought it would be
>helpful to state a few principles that the board is taking into account:
>
>              First, we are *not* considering this amendment because we
>believe that the scriptural requirement of men only in the eldership
>of a
>church applies to the board of a school.  Thus in our view, it is not a
>question of whether it is a "sin" to have a woman on the board, but
>rather a
>question of wisdom and prudence in our current cultural circumstances.
>
>              Second, in regard to those circumstances, we believe it is
>necessary to resist egalitarian feminism, which has spread through our
>culture and has even affected many parts of the church.  As a classical,
>Christian school committed to the Scriptures as our ultimate rule of
>faith
>and practice, we believe we have an obligation to set a positive
>example.  Sad
>to say, frequently in the current climate, women seeking positions of
>authority (e.g. on a school board) subscribe to some form of feminist
>philosophy.  Rather than vetoing a nomination (which would appear to be
>personal instead of principled), we would rather address the issue
>this way,
>without involving personalities.
>
>              Third, we want to positively encourage the involvement
>of the
>fathers and husbands in the God-ordained oversight of their children's
>education (Eph. 6:4).  As we do this, it creates a "de facto"
>presence of
>men only on the board (as it has been for the last fourteen years), and
>leaves the school in a legally unprotected position.  Courts have
>consistently found that discrimination can be "proved" from nothing more
>than the "results," and so it would be only prudent to have our practice
>outlined as a principle within our by-laws.
>
>	[rest snipped]
>_________________________________________________________________
>
>How convenient to have a holy book to justify their male prejudices.
>While the principle of patriarchy is the general theme of the entire
>Bible, both OT and NT, the men of the Logos School board especially
>like to justify their claim by referring to a late, anonymous non-
>Pauline epistle like Ephesians. They then arrogantly transfer an
>ancient outlook to our 21st century by damning educated women leaders
>as "feminists," and all of us as "secularists." The Wilsonistas are,
>of course, "God-ordained," wise, and prudent "in our current cultural
>circumstances."
>
>Ralph
>
>
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