Wiscnews
Following a meeting last Sunday in which male members of St. John's Lutheran Church voted narrowly to fire St. John's School Principal John Hartwig, some parents are planning to remove their children from the school, even as Hartwig himself urges families to stand by St. John's.
Media coverage of the decision, following accusations by church leadership that Hartwig had distributed materials questioning Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod doctrine about women's role in the church, has focused in part on the church's decision to exclude women from both speaking and voting at the meeting.
That decision, and the doctrine on which it was based, is one of the main reasons parent Jennifer Hopper says she has enrolled her daughter Kyla, a second-grader who has attended St. John's since kindergarten, in the Baraboo School District.
"If they didn't want our opinion on our child's education ... then they didn't need our money either," Hopper said. "She'll be starting at North Freedom as soon as spring break is over."
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GJ - I questioned the WELSian promotion of adulterous pastors and false doctrine, and they struck back hard.
At the moment there are several WELS positions on women usurping authority:
A. Women already serve as pastors and no one does anything about it.
B. Women teach men at Mary Lou College and at various WELS events dominated by Church and Change leaders.
C. The W/ELS boards of doctrine are not man enough to reject women consecrating Holy Communion.
The feminist crowd will take care of Hartwig, but that will not make the newspapers.
