This Drollinger sounds like a total idiot. After getting booted out
of the Governor's office for offending Arnold, it looks like he'll
lose his job leading a Bible study class for lawmakers. He
"characterized female legislators with young children at home as
sinners," and several of the legislators took offense and staged a
protest.

On Wed, 26 May 2004 01:11:21 -0700, "Yang, AthD \(h.c\)"
<eacmole@//AWOLBUSH//mail.com>, Message ID:
<nMmdnRQNkKm0zCndRVn-vA@comcast.com> wrote in alt.atheism;

Maybe Rev. Ralph can now go get a real job.

The moron is mindless.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/25/domestic.revolt.ap/index.html

California lawmakers protest pastor
Pastor: Some female legislators sinners


SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- State lawmakers staged a "domestic
revolt" Monday, some donning kitchen aprons and scarlet "M's" to protest
a pastor who characterized female legislators with young children at
home as sinners.

Democratic Sen. Debra Bowen went barefoot on the Senate floor, bringing
along a toaster and other kitchen accessories to her desk.

"Today, I'll be serving up a billion dollars in savings for PG&E
customers, identity theft legislation ... along with bacon and eggs,
getting my shopping list together and preparing to can," she said.

State legislators were offended by what the Rev. Ralph Drollinger, who
leads a Bible study class for lawmakers, wrote during a Bible lesson in
April.

"It is one thing for a mother to work out of her home while her children
are in school," wrote Drollinger. "It is quite another matter to have
children in the home and live away in Sacramento for four days a week.
Whereas the former could be in keeping with the spirit of Proverbs 31,
the latter is sinful."

Bowen said Monday's protest was to point out that lawmakers with
children "can do as good a job being parents as they can being
legislators."

About a dozen male and female senators joined the protest, including
Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, who presided over the Senate
wearing a pink flowered apron.

Democratic Sen. Martha Escutia said "nothing hurts me more" than leaving
her two children, ages 5 and 8, to come to Sacramento each week.

But she added, "I am raising gentlemen who are tolerant of different
paths that we take regardless of what our gender is."

Drollinger, president of a national Christian evangelical organization
called Capitol Ministries, said he was not speaking about single mothers
who have to work to support their children, nor was he saying women
should not run for office.

The Bible says God has given men and women different roles, Drollinger
said. "Man's is, primarily, to be a breadwinner, and women's is to be at
home nurturing their children.

"I'm all for the female legislators serving our great state with all of
their giftedness, in due time," Drollinger said. "If they have children
at home, they need to share those gifts with their children. Then after
that, as Ecclesiastes says, there is a season that they can serve in the
Legislature."

Capitol Ministries' Bible study classes once met in the governor's suite
of offices, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told Drollinger to move when
Drollinger referred to Roman Catholicism as a false religion.
Schwarzenegger and his wife are Catholic.

Copyright 2004 The Associated Press



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and
SCAMPERMEISTER!"

When in doubt, SCAMPER about!
When things are fair, SCAMPER everywhere!
When things are rough, can't SCAMPER enough!
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