American Taliban Watch: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

3:28 pm EST August 10th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 8 Comments

Oh for the day when women were second class citizens again, right jackasses?

One of the nation’s largest Southern Baptist seminaries, the school is introducing a new, women-only academic program in homemaking _ a 23-hour concentration that counts toward a bachelor of arts degree in humanities. The program is aimed at helping establish what Southwestern’s president calls biblical family and gender roles.

Coursework will include seven hours of nutrition and meal preparation, seven hours of textile design and “clothing construction,” three hours of general homemaking, three hours on “the value of a child,” and three hours on the “biblical model for the home and family.”

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“We are moving against the tide in order to establish family and gender roles as described in God’s word for the home and the family,” Patterson said at the denomination’s annual meeting in June. “If we do not do something to salvage the future of the home, both our denomination and our nation will be destroyed.”

(via Cori)

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8 Responses to “American Taliban Watch: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary”

  1. Jet says:
    August 10, 2007 at 3:45 pm

    Having a hard time feeling the pain on the destruction of the denomination. Jackass does sum it up nicely. Somehow, I think the nation won’t have any problem surviving.

  2. Slothrop says:
    August 10, 2007 at 4:01 pm

    “…biblical family and gender roles…”

    Like when Delilah cut off Samson’s hair and rendered the big fella powerless.

  3. Quaker in a Basement says:
    August 10, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    Anything on how to support yourself when hubby takes off with the bank account and the church secretary?

  4. Nick says:
    August 10, 2007 at 5:18 pm

    I am a little lost here. How does a home-ec course equate to chopping off fingers for smoking or killing somebody because they put cucumbers and tomatoes in the same shopping bag?

  5. legion says:
    August 10, 2007 at 5:18 pm

    “We are moving against the tide in order to establish family and gender roles as described in God’s word for the home and the family,”

    You said a mouthful, buddy.

  6. Quaker in a Basement says:
    August 10, 2007 at 5:22 pm

    I am a little lost here.

    I should say so. LGF is down the hall and on the far right.

  7. OxyCon says:
    August 10, 2007 at 5:56 pm

    Right wing fundies are batsh*t crazy no matter what religion they infest:

    Bangladeshi writer attacked

    Author accused of promoting women’s rights in Quran escapes unscathed
    Aug 10, 2007
    HYDERABAD, India – Dozens of Muslim protesters led by three lawmakers attacked an exiled Bangladeshi writer at the release of her book in southern India on Thursday, calling her “anti-Islam,” and telling her to go back to her country.

    About 100 people burst into the Press Club in Hyderabad, shouting insults at Taslima Nasrin and ransacking the place, throwing chairs in the air and overturning tables.

    Organizers pushed them back, and Nasrin escaped unhurt. In the melee, one of the protesters slapped her, witnesses said.

    The protesters belonged to the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen political party in Andhra Pradesh state. Police detained nearly all the 100 protesters, including the three lawmakers, said N. Madhusudan Reddy, the deputy commissioner.

    Nasrin fled Bangladesh in 1994 when Islamic extremists threatened to kill her after an Indian newspaper quoted her as saying changes must be made to the Islamic holy book, the Quran, to give women more rights.

    She has vehemently denied making the comments but still faces death threats from Islamic hard-liners in Bangladesh, where one of her books is banned.

  8. Rounds77 says:
    August 10, 2007 at 9:23 pm

    The course description reads like a blueprint for a mill that manufactures animatronic Stepford broads.