Respecting a lady

Evangelist Anne Graham Lotz writes about an experience at a pastors conference:

Here, she talks about the incident: Youtube

 

I'm never against anything that gives more respect to women! Part of that reasoning it that it makes me feel more lady-like.
I'm blessed with a husband that is very respectful and sweet. Opens all doors, carries stuff, all that jazz.
Maybe more women would feel and act more lady-like if they were treated this way. I know I'm definitely more prone to look up to guys, call them sir, think highly of them when I see them treating females decent.

When I was younger, we were required to stand when an adult entered the classroom and not sit until they said "thank you, be seated." We used sir and ma'am. Boys were taught to open doors for girls, to pull out chairs, etc..

Now it seems that not only are many of these habits dropped, they're replaced with plain old rude behavior. That in itself tells me they're needed in order to keep more base human behavior at bay.

 

I sing quite regularly in our church and I play the piano at every service. About three years ago, after singing the Sunday before Christmas I stepped down from the platform and some girls were misbehaving and caught my attention which caused me to catch my heel in the hem of my dress and fall to the floor. Since that day there are always helping hands for the ladies as they come down from the platform.

I am especially blessed to have a husband that opens car doors for me, carries my things (even my purse if needed!) holds chairs, helps me down stairs, walks on the traffic side of a sidewalk, really doesn't allow me to go many places by myself as he is my protector. For instance, I had to meet the man from the music store and one of our sound men at the church Friday evening so he could adjust our sound system. My husband went with me, wouldn't let me go alone because he knew that it didn't look right for me to be there by myself with two men. He went along with me.

I enjoy feeling feminine and protected. So yes, I would appreciate men standing in respect when I enter a room.

 

Phyllis Schlafly gets the same bigoted reception from leftist college students as Anne Graham Lotz did from those pastors :

Youtube—Students Turn Backs To Schlafly During Graduation

When Mrs. Schlafly spoke at Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist College in 1979, she was greeted with a standing ovation.

In contrast, a few years later Sword of the Lord editor Curtis Hutson stormed out of a James Robison conference when he found out Mrs. Schlafly would also be speaking

 

In this Youtube clip at 8:00, as Mrs. Deanna McClary comes to the pulpit to speak at some Lester Roloff meeting, everyone stands to their feet. Most everyone is clapping, except Bro. Roloff, who quickly motions for everyone to sit down!

 

It is not "leftist" to not respect the opinions of Phyllis Schlafly. She is irrelevant and her views are a laughingstock of more informed evangelical Christianity.

 

I've personally never seen anyone stand when a lady walked into the room, but my pet peeve is the non courtesy exhibited to people trying to push a wheelchair and open a door at the same time. This is a constant problem for me as my mother cannot go anywhere unless in a wheelchair. People (men and women) will just sit and just watch me struggle to get those big heavy doors open and push my mother through them at the same time. It's especially fun when it's raining. It's mainly the younger people that offer help. Just don't get me started! Oops....I guess I already did. :laugh:

 

So it is happening down South as well?!? when I'd rode the train into & out of Manhattan, I'd often give up my seat to an infirmed person while old & young alike would sit there content that they had a seat & without regard for the suffering person. What a shame.

 

Oh, it is those student's leftist beliefs that make them leftists. You are absolutely correct that even absent Mrs. Schlafly, they would probably find something else to get all worked up about.

When Dr. Falwell had Sen. Kennedy (similarly despised by the Right as Schlafly is by the Left) speak during Liberty's chapel, he was welcomed warmly: Youtube

It's sad when one allows one's bigotry to eclipse common courtesy and manners.

 

Youtube—Susan Perlman Speaking at Dallas Seminary Chapel Service

No one rises when she takes the pulpit at 2:10.

 

Salty - you must be lots older than I am. <G>

 

Yes, I remember that growing up.

Doesn't happen now. At our current church, our pastor does not sit up on the platform before the preaching. Instead, he sits with the laity, so it is a non issue.

 

We had a pastor who was very careful to instruct the young preacher boys about this. Whenever a lady got up to sing, they would respectfully stand up as she came up the platform. He also taught them to look UP when seated behind the pulpit. That way their line of vision was directed up instead of straight ahead at the persons rear end.

 

That ruins all the fun of wearing a sign on your rear with an arrow pointing upwards and words that say "heaven art thataway mister"