On August 9, the First Baptist Church of Watertown, New York dismissed Mary Lambert as a Sunday School teacher with a letter explaining that the church had adopted an interpretation that prohibits women from teaching men. She had taught there for 54 years. The letter cited I Timothy 2:12 in support of their position, “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.”

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