Texas mayor defends comments saying women shouldn't lead prayer in public

[RandySF]

A Texas mayor is facing backlash after he said women shouldn’t lead prayer in public before city council meetings because the Bible forbids it.

Wylie, Texas, Mayor Eric Hogue’s remarks were made in a email to fellow city council members, which was then shared publicly on Facebook this week, The Dallas Morning News reported.

The city’s mayor pro tem, Jeff Forrester, reached out earlier this month and asked for Hogue’s thoughts on having members of the Christian missionary group Youth With A Mission attend the city council's next meeting.

"Sounds good. I would like that. All I ask is that those leading the public prayer be young men," Hogue responded.

Hogue is also a minister of Cottonwood Church of Christ, according to the outlet. He followed up in the email by quoting two New Testament verses that he said his congregation takes “literally.”


https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/499289-texas-mayor-defends-comments-saying-women-shouldnt-lead-prayer

[Funtatlaguy]

1. Just a few steps away from becoming Gilead

[Ohiogal]

2. It's a city council meeting, not a religious service

They shouldn’t be saying any prayers at all.

Let them save their misogyny for their religion gatherings

[Aristus]

3. Reasons not to take the Bible literally in the modern age:

[walkingman]

4. How did the religious crowd become do damned ignorant?

[RandySF]

5. Seems to be a pattern across the world

Look at America, Israel, India and the Middle East and you'll see major religions lurching to the right over the past few decades.

[Texaswitchy]

6. I would be happy to help him do something with his bible.

Really.

[The Magistrate]

7. If He Takes Those Lines from Timothy Literally, Sir

Bet he doesn't take this from James literally:

"Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick."

And he couldn't possibly give a sensible reason why he doesn't take them both seriously, either.

Just one more whimpering little 'cafeteria christian' who wants to belong to a he-man woman-haters club, that's all this waste of oxygen is. He should find a dozen leafy trees, and apologize....