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Texas Mayor Slammed For Saying The Bible Forbids Women From Leading City Council's Public Prayer
22 May
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The mayor of Wylie, Texas, has come under fire online after forbidding women from leading the City Council's public prayer.
Wylie Mayor Eric Hogue ignited the controversy when a member of the City Council requested the Council's invocation be given by a member of the local youth group "Youth With a Mission."
<p><strong>In his email reply, Wylie <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-mayor-eric-hogue-women-invocation_n_5ec72e7ec5b66686597a4539" target="_blank">responded</a>:</strong></p><blockquote><em>"All I ask is that those leading the public prayer be young men." </em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p><strong>One of Hogue's constituents, Mary Shaddox, <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-mayor-eric-hogue-women-invocation_n_5ec72e7ec5b66686597a4539" target="_blank">commented</a>:</strong></p><blockquote><em>"I just was flabbergasted. It's 2020."</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
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</p><p><strong>Hogue noted that he's a King James Bible literalist and cited two passages which supposedly forbid women from speaking in church.</strong><br></p><p><div id="c7da91bc-8e44-492f-b7fd-c382c0e55bda"></div></p><p><strong>The First book of Paul to the Corinthians 14:34-35 reads:</strong></p><blockquote>"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."</blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
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</p><p><strong>1 Timothy 2:11-12 also describes a fairly misogynistic status quo.</strong><br></p><blockquote>"Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."</blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
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</p><p><strong>Local news station KXAS reports that in his 12 years as Mayor, Hogue has never selected a <span></span>woman to deliver the invocation. </strong></p><p><strong>However, Hogue noted that he's allowed women to deliver the prayer when selected by others. </strong></p><p><strong>He commented:</strong><br></p><blockquote><em>"Yes, there have been multiple women that have led the prayers."</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
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</p><p><strong>Hogue spoke to local news station WFAA-TV and told the he believes women can hold almost any role in our society, but cannot become preachers, <a href="https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas-mayor-says-women-cant-pray-at-city-council-meetings/287-2c842884-f841-49c3-bc63-f9744f8ec6f6" target="_blank">saying</a>:</strong><br></p><blockquote><em>"If you attend Church of Christ, there will not be a female preacher. There will not be a female song leader. There will not be a female that leads the prayer."</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
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</p><p><strong>Hogue is not seeking re-election this upcoming November, but that hasn't stopped many from calling on him to step down now.</strong><br></p><p><div data-conversation-spotlight=""></div></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
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</p><p><strong>Misogyny has no place in our modern society.</strong></p><p><strong>People who believe women shouldn't hold any positions based on their gender because of a middle ages English King's version of the Bible shouldn't be representing women in a secular government.</strong><br></p>
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