Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!ukma!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas Blake) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sexism in the church?? (was: Re: Gay Ordination) Message-ID: Date: 30 Mar 91 07:59:37 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton Lines: 26 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Here's a little joke I learned from a lady pastor friend. A new woman pastor is assigned to a small rural church. It's her first pastorate, and it's their first woman pastor. Now the women of the church take to the new pastor right off, but the men just don't know what to make of her. While talking the problem over with some of the women, the pastor finds out that a bunch of the men like to go fishing together on saturdays. On Sunday the pastor asks one of the men if she can go along next time, he can't very well refuse, so he invites her. Well, the week passes and Saturday morning finds the pastor and a bunch of the men in a boat headed out to the center of the lake. Just as they're about to start, one of the men realizes that in his nervousness he's left the bait on shore. Some grumbling ensues, but the pastor, trying to make peace says, "Oh, don't worry, I'll go get it." She stands up in the boat, steps out onto the water and starts walking to shore. As soon as she's out of earshot, one of the men complains, "It's bad enough they send us a woman preacher! *She* can't even swim!" Tom Blake SUNY-Binghamton