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Mondav. July 22.1974
University Dally Kansan
By MARIAN HORVAT
Feminists Say Bible Is Sexist; Some People Agree
Is the Bible anti-feminist?
Proponents of women's lib have argued recently that the Bible can hardly be considered as a handbook for women.
Consider the following examples: Paul's command that women are to be in veil in church (1 Cor. 11:1-16); teachers that say a woman is not be a teacher and should keep silent in obedience to men (1 Tim. 2:12); the advice of the bride that she is to submit to her husband. (Col. 3:18)
THE NINTH and tent commandments illustrate the sentiment of the time that a woman was merely a part of the household property of her husband or father: "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male or female slaves, nor his ox, or ass, or anything else that belongs to him," Exod. 20:17 (Bible).
Double standards were held in almost every aspect of men-women relationships.
A woman couldn't hold a public office nor act as a legal witness in court. A man could.
noun could put his wife away if it was proved also a man's virgin before marriage (Dent, 22,1521)
The husband could divorce a woman by granting a bill of divorce. (Deut. 24:14.) A woman couldn't divorce her husband.
The woman was also restricted socially in Jesus'
day. She wore a heavy veil that could only be lifted in the intimacy of her home and on her wedding day. In public, no man should have talked, greeted or even looked at her. However, in Gaillee and country regions, restrictions weren't so severe and women would normally even sold their wares in the public marketplace.
THE SENTIMENT of the time is best summed up by a blessing pronounced each day by the men of a synagogue: "Blessed be thou, O Lord our God, King of the world, who has not made me a Gentile . . . who has not made me a slave . . . who has not made me a woman."
Centuries later, when women began to recite the bissages aloud, the wording was changed to "Who
wants to speak?"
"The Bible is definitely a sexist book," the Rev. Matthew Hagster of the St. Lawrence Catholic Student Center, 1831 Crescent Road, said recently. "It's not good for us, and as far as I can still be a sexist world."
If the Bible is viewed as an unchanging rather than developing principle, the church is present.
"You can't update the Bible. It's not a book you can change. But there are seeds of a nonsexist view, which are gradually beginning to bloom as women and men become as fully human as men." Father Habiger said.
ALTHOUGH FATHER HABIGER said he thought women would eventually achieve full equality in the Church, he expected it to be a very gradual process.
A key text in this consideration is Gal. 3:28, he said, which is "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
"Human nature is very reluctant to accept major cultural changes," he said, and "I think of this more deeply than I know."
Father Habiger and Sister Barbara Overman, also of the St. Lawrence Catholic Student Center, agreed that women were more vigorously opposed to change than men.
Sister Barbara said this was because women were trained from childhood to serve men.
"Women are usually the ones involved in parish life, from cleaning to bake sales," she said. "I don't know whether they would give their time, energy and service to a woman pastor."
Overman said there should be an ordained ministry for women.
Although parts of the Bible seem anti-feminist in nature, Sister Barbara said. She was very
feminists, breaking ordinary conventions in his dealings with women and showing them a sur-
“READING THE SCRIPTURE, I find that in all instances where Jesus related to women, the outcomes were very positive,” she said. “My favorite example is when Jesus shocked even his disciples. Talking to a Samaritan woman at a well John 4:27). Was at a time when just this wasn't done.
Culture plays a very important part in understanding some of the anti-feminist views of the Bible, Will Linkuk, professor of speech and language, who has written that deal with woman's relation to the Bible.
“In Genesis, after the fall of Adam and Eve, God says to woman that he, meaning man, will rule over you. This was later taken literally by cultures of the Old Testament Bible.” he said.
The more primitive the society, the more women are subjected to the wishes of men, where brute violence is used.
Women played a decidedly less important role in society than they do today, Linkuel said.
THE GREEK CULTURE was such that proper women never spoke in public and only the prostitutes did. There was also a time in history when women were not permitted to attend a seventh-century church council finally voted that
The role women played was that of a mother, which made it difficult for them to play a vital role in their lives.
they did." he said.
"in the New Testament, but," Linkuq said,
Christ came to relieve all mankind of all sins, and
he turned away.
After understanding the history of the Bible, Linkuel said, he never thought the Bible complied with his own reading.
The Rev. Norman Steffen of the Lutheran Chapel and Student Center, 2104 W. 18 St., said the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod had a long history in restricting women from major offices.
"UNTIL ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, women weren't even allowed to vote in church matters," he said. "We still have refused women ordination, while the other groups have opened the doors to women preachers."
Steffen said the basis for this was found in *words* that women shouldn't usurp authority because of the order of creation. In a letter to the president, Mr. Steffen wrote no woman to teach or have authority over men*.
“There are always questions biblically,” Steffen said. “We've gone a considerable distance from a time when our church allowed only men voters to attend the positions in the church may be held by women.”
NFL Owners Demand Revisions Before Talks
WASHINGTON (AP)—National Football League owners ability broke off contract negotiations with striking players yesterday and declared they wouldn't return until the union submitted a revised package of demands.
Mediator James Scearce reported no progress was made since the latest round of talks began Friday. He said he would try to get the two sides together today.
The players, he said, agreed to send their bargaining team to the proposed session today but the owners advised him they would send a representative "only for the purpose of receiving proposals from the union."
Sources said the owners departed yesterday's session after accusing the NFL Players Association of failure to respond to questions about the $40 million Friday to the union's original 83 demands.
The players wished to continue the
Yankees Defeat K.C.Royals, 5-4
NEW YORK (AP)—Bobby Murcer's bases-loaded double in the seventh inning drove in the tying and winning runs and scored a home run. Over the Kesas City Ravals yesterday.
Trailing 4-2 against reliever Steve Mingori, the Yankees loaded the bases with none out on Lou Piniella's infield hit, a throwing error by second baseman Cookie Rojas on an attempted force play and a walk to Thurman Munson.
Jim Mason, who singled home New York's first two runs in the second inning, grounded to first, scoring Pinella and advancing the other runners. Sandy Alomar, who scored 13 runs, was purposefully passed and Murcer punished his double down the left field line.
Kansas City added a run in the seventh on
Heath's single, a sacrifice and single by
Jimmy Carter.
The Royals jumped on Pat Dobson for three quick runs in the first inning. Vada Pinson singled and scored on Rojas' double. Omit Aida then hit his eight homer.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMERICAN LEAGUE
W  L  W. L. Pel. GB
Boston  59  45  321
Baltimore  60  45  321
Caveland  48  45  314
New York  48  45  305
Milwaukee  47  48  31
Oklahoma  47  48  31
Oakland 55 41 41 373 5
Kansas City 61 45 41 390 5
Texas 48 50 490 8
Minnesota 48 50 490 8
Callasville 47 50 504 7
Cleveland 10, Oakland 9
New York 6, Kansas City 2
Chicago 1, Milwaukee 2
Detroit 8, Cleveland 5
Minnesota 12, Detroit 6
Oakland 6. Cleveland 11. Detroit 7.
Minnesota 10. Detroit 7.
Baltimore 9. New York 8. Kansas City 4.
Chicago 8. Milwaukee 5.
No games scheduled
Tuesday's Game
All-Star Game at Pittsburgh, N.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
| | W | L | Pct. | GB |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Philadelphia | 40 | 39 | .42 | - |
| St Louis | 43 | 40 | .48 | 3 |
| Pittsburgh | 43 | 40 | .48 | 3 |
| Pittsburgh | 41 | 42 | .45 | 2/4 |
| Chicago | 41 | 52 | .44 | 47 |
| Detroit | 41 | 52 | .44 | 47 |
Today's Games No games scheduled
Los Angeles
Claremont
Riverside
Alanta
San Francisco
San Diego
63 34 64 649
58 10 40 52%
30 49 30 40%
43 53 305 14%
30 49 305 14%
GAMES
St. Louis 6, Houston 5
Chicago 2, Chicago 1
Cleveland 10, Canton 7
Pittsburgh 7, Atlanta 4, 11 games
New York 10, San Diego 2
N.Y.C.
Sl. Louis 9. Houston
St. Louis 10. Dallas
Charlotte 8. Chicago 2
San Francisco 4. Montreal 0-1
Philadelphia 7. Los Angeles 2
Philadelphia 7. Los Angeles 2
Tuesday's Game All-Star Game at Pittsburgh
bargaining as their 21-day air strike headed into the last week of training camp, sources
**Players' representatives, observing a new bank's Source's request, would completely complete the transaction.**
The owners issued this statement yesterday: "The management council will not be available for further meetings unless and until the players association comes forth with the proposals it promised and failed to submit for the last three days."
One source said the owners' charge that the players had failed to answer their questions was due to the fact
"It's true they didn't come back with another package of their own," a source said of the players. "But they certainly put out attacks which the owners put on the table."
Details of the owners' counter-to offer to the players' original list of 63 demands were not immediately known. The owners announced earlier they were prepared to spend $4 million on added benefits for pre-season games, the Pro-Bowl and other items.
The players accused the owners of failing to address the more controversial "freedom of speech" issue and included elimination of the Rozells compensation rule, the waiver and option to sue.
The strike took on added importance over the weekend, with most veterans due to have reported to training camp, which comparatively few did, and just days remaining before the scheduled start of exhibitions.
The owners said the preseason contests, usually a big moneymaker for them, would be better off not using it.
10,868 GUMP Mike Huebner, Stevenville, Miss., graduate student in护理 position, squints in disbelief yesterday afternoon at the thermometer outside Lindley Hall. The temperature at the time was passing 102 degrees on its way to a high of 108.
Kansan Staff Photo by DEBRIE GUMP
Firearms Killed NRA Lobbvist
WASHINGTON (AP)—A gun lobbyist who was shot to death belief that firearm control legislation "wantn't write" the paper was written on," says one of his colleagues.
The lobbist, Louis A. Sister, was concerned, according to his father-in-law, that the country would become "Hiterizer—less punished and only the criminals can get them."
Sisler's employers said that feeling was among the things that led him to go to work two months ago for the National Rifle Association (NRA) as a lobbyist. His job included lobbying against gun control legislation in Congress.
Sisler, a former Indiana judge, was fatally shot a week ago as he stood in the doorway of his father-in-law's home here. Police said it was an apparent case of mistaken identity and that Sisler was killed by several persons searching for a rapist.
Four persons have been charged with the murder of Fisher, who was shot with a sawed-off shotgun and two-calliber magnum pistol.
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Bill's Foes Sav It Restricts Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Opponents say a consumer protection bill being debated by the Senate would allow a new federal tax on all of the sources of their consumer interest stories.
Sponsors say such assertions are designed only to plumb doubts in the minds of students.
The issue may come to a head this week when the Senate resumes debate on the bill, which would create an independent agency with authority to intervene before federal courts and agencies to protect consumer interests.
Rep. Morpry Udall, D-Ariz., said his bill would protect the environment while assuring the nation a continuing fuel supply.
A House vote is planned today op a
The House plans debate today and tomorrow on a bill imposing federal standards on strip mining. After rejecting separate biflaves favored by the coal industry, the House has turned to a compromise, similar to one approved by the Senate.
resolution to allow the Judiciary Committee to open its impeachment deliberations to the public.
Although the current fiscal year is three weeks old, Congress has enacted only one of the tax cuts.
House debate is scheduled Wednesday on a bill appropriating $3.7 billion for the Interior Department and related agencies, while the Senate will vote today on $13.535 billion funding measure for farm, consumer and environmental-protection programs.
Astronauts Give Moon Rock To Washington Cathedral
Opponents, led by Sen. Sam J. Ervin, D-N.C., and James B. Allen, D-Ala., say the bill would create a consumer czar accountable to no one, but with authority to harass businessmen and delay proceedings before federal agencies.
The Senate already has spent three days on the bill establishing a consumer protection agency.
WASHINGTON (AP)—As the Washington Cathedral choir sang of the sun, the moon and the stars, Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong proudly held aloft yesterday a piece of the moon that he and his Apollo 11 crewmates brought to earth five years ago.
The consumer protection agency could intervene in any agency or court proceeding at which a consumer issue was deemed to be involved.
Marching stiffly beside him, trailing the chair, were Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and Jerry Hoehne, two members of that historic journey when their first set foot on a satellite, July 20, 1969.
At the high altar, they presented the rock to The Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre, dean of the cathedral. It will be imbedded in a stained glass "space window" that the astronauts dedicated yesterday to commemorate America's exploration space.
In presenting the rock, $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches in diameter and sealed between two pieces of glass banded with stainless steel, Armstrong said:
"On behalf of the President and the people of the United States we present unto them a declaration from beyond the earth to be imbedded in the embrace of this house of prayer for all people."
"Here, surely is the deepest meaning of our commemoration today. Each one of these men who have sourced beyond the comforts of this world has a own special way to express the overwhelming revelation of the oneness of munkint that came to them as they looked upward."
Dean Sayre replied:
"In that tiny piece of stone, is writ, all unweathered and unworn, the history of the origins of everything including us. Billions recorded, and decipherable for us to read.
The space window, high up in the nave of the cathedral, is 18 feet high and nearly 10 feet wide. The abstract design depicts the vastness of the universe.
Artist Rodney Winfield of St. Louis said the glass colors of blue, red and orange spheres surround immense immense solar spheres surrounding the moon. The event climaxed a weekend of annual commemorating the fifth anniversary on the moon by Armstrong and Aldrin.
The administrator of the agency would have broad authority to demand consumer information from 'any person engaged in a business' and thereby stantially affects interstate commerce'.
Allen said that provision would give the administrator authority to demand that a reporter disclose his sources, if the information in a consumer story could not otherwise be obtained by the consumer agency.
A spokesman for Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-III., a chief sponsor of the bill, said the information-gathering power pertained only to businessmen and not to reporters.
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