Lawsuit claims church workers were fired for being women

[tj2001]

Lawsuit claims church workers were fired for being women
A deacon at Faith Baptist Church in Bastrop says allegations are false.
By Claire Osborn
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Saturday, May 30, 2009

A principal and a school administrator said they were fired from a Baptist school in Bastrop last year because the pastor didn't believe that women should work outside their homes, according to a lawsuit filed in Travis County.

Rebecca Mayes and Lynda Eichorst have sued the Faith Baptist Church and the Faith Baptist Academy School and are seeking an unspecified amount in damages. A deacon at the church, Earnest Salazar, denied the allegations this week, saying that Mayes and Eichorst were never fired. "This whole matter has been really misconstrued," Salazar said.

The pastor named in the lawsuit, William Hutto, has resigned and did not return a call this week seeking comment.

According to the minutes of a church board meeting April 6, 2008, Hutto said Eichorst and Mayes would be fired because he did not believe that women should work outside their homes, the lawsuit said. "Pastor Bill stated he did not believe Faith Baptist Church has been a biblically sound church," according to the lawsuit...

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/05/30/0530churchsuit.html

[BR_Parkway]

1. I thought churches were free to discriminate in their hiring if it went

against their beliefs. Of course, since housework isn't men's work, who did the preacher think was going to vacuum his office and take out his trash?

[ejpoeta]

2. wow! women shouldn't work outside the home? and it's in the minutes!! uggh.

how far we've come. how far away we really are.