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[Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our New Uploads<\/strong> page.]<\/span><\/p>\n I have long observed that major movements in the world will sooner or later have their effect upon religion. Numerous examples exist:<\/span><\/p>\n One example is the Women\u2019s Lib movement and its implications concerning the church. In July 1974, Carter Heywood was one of ten women ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church, Anglican Communion. An outspoken \u201clibber,\u201d her official title is \u201cthe Rev. Ms. Heywood.\u201d She was in Fort Worth in January, 1975, addressing the Brite Divinity school at TCU. The Fort Worth Star Telegram<\/em> of January 23, 1975, featured her in a lengthy story, accompanied by a picture of her in her clerical collar and holding a cigarette daintily between two fingers.<\/span><\/p>\n In the story, Ms. Heywood made the \u201cstock\u201d complaint of the \u201clibbers,\u201d that Scripture and church history have always had an \u201canti-personhood bias\u201d against women. Opposition to her priesthood by her own hierarchy have but further convinced her of this bias. Are attitudes such as hers affecting the Lord\u2019s people? Regrettably, yes. Some who have forsaken the authority of God\u2019s Word have for some time been voicing complaints about \u201cinequalities\u201d forced upon women by the church.<\/span><\/p>\n A sister in Houston said in a 1975 Bering Drive Church bulletin:<\/span><\/p>\n The proper role of women in the church. Here it is: My first and last and definitive statement of the \u2018role of women in the church\u2019\u2026The proper role of women in the church is whatever you define as the role of men in the church\u2026 That\u2019s it, no more, no less. That simple.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 The unmistakable implication is that there should be no objection to women serving as elders and preachers. But I suppose we should not be too shocked. What else can you expect when one forsakes Scriptural authority?<\/span><\/p>\n [Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for, and it was published in the September 18, 1973, edition of the Granbury Gospel, <\/em>weekly bulletin of the Granbury Church of Christ, Granbury, Texas, of which I was editor. <\/span><\/p>\n Attribution:<\/strong> From thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 0[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our New Uploads page.] I have long observed that major movements in the world will sooner or later have their effect upon religion. Numerous examples exist: As the divorce rate in society has risen, we…<\/p>\n\n