Monday, April 18, 2011

Devaluing a Position


Bruce Church has left a new comment on your post "Lutheran School, Christian School, or Profit Cente...":

Now that Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer have taken over the anchor positions for their networks' evening news shows, suddenly the job is devalued, and seen as a woman's job. NBC's Brian Williams is the only male anchor left, and there may not be any more. Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes was asked to take the job, but now what once seen as reaching the pinnacle of the news-making business is seen as a demotion. Such is the fate of being a pastor. Once women break the glass ceiling and become pastors, it devalues the position and suddenly it seems as though instead of breaking the glass ceiling, they only jackhammered their way into the dank and musty basement.
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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2011/04/14/60-minutes-reporter-pelley-likely-to-replace-couric.html

Some of Pelley's colleagues privately worry that the Evening News could be construed as a demotion for him - a concern that underscores how much the job has changed but belies an opportunity for Pelley and his biggest supporter, Jeff Fager, who became chairman of CBS News in February.

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GJ - At my first call, LCA, men ran the Sunday School and taught all the grades except kindergarten.

When men are spiritual leaders in a congregation, the women also come. When men fail to be leaders, the women will fill in, but the men tend to stay away. Women try to join men's clubs, but men do not go to court to join women's clubs.

WELS has already started the practice of female pastors, without even voting at one of their rigged conventions. Look at all the Changer policies, encouraged by SP Schroeder, and you will see how quickly WELS catches up with ELCA.

Second wives of pastors often want to be shemales, so that new policy, of divorced and remarried ministers, will also advance the feminazification of WELS.