Me thinks he doth protest too much.

I was just thinking the same thing!

I had the same thought, he's rantin' way too loud about not ever wearin' a dress.

I was thinking the same thing.

It's much more comfortable without the shoes. lol

I remember when girls were allowed to wear pants to school, I was in early elementary school. I remember when my grandmother started wearing pants, she said they were much more practical than skirts. When my grandfather passed, the day of his funeral was cold, windy, and rainy. Grammie decided he would approve of her wearing pants to his funeral. They were black, and it just want not fit weather for any skin to be exposed. I was thinking he wouldn't care and wasn't in any condition to care any longer, but I was glad she chose comfort over convention.

@HippieChick58 We were allowed to wear pants to school, on those really cold days, but the needed to be taken off before we went to class. When I was in 4th grade, the high schoolers protested and we were then allowed to actually wear pants to school.

@NHjulie I do remember that too. We'd have to take off our pants and hang them up with our coats. We'd wear shorts underneath our dresses so we could play on the jungle gym and keep our underpants covered. I don't remember what year we were allowed to wear pants to school, but I I remember it was before high school.

@HippieChick58 1969 my sister and her friend got sent home from school in Junior High for daring to wear slacks to school. Not even jeans, dress slacks! It only began to change in the seventies.

@Barnie2years I graduated in 1976, so yeah that was the era.

My grandmother and mother were Brethren. I still remember my grandmother wearing the lace beanie when I was a kid. Eventually it was only for services, then later not at all..

@Barnie2years When I started attending that church, it was a "normal" church. After ten years or so, they decided to go brethren, especially after the pastor decided to become a missionary. A couple of years before, though, they were moving that way--women were suddenly not allowed to speak in the sanctuary. If they had something to say, they told their husbands--or any man if they were not married--to speak for them. The pastor left, the elders preached the sermons, and both were weak men and poor speakers. I won't go into my letter to the elders and the deacons which resulted in them saying I was trying to divide the church and gain a following for myself. They sparked my dissatisfaction with the church, but after I left it, I started reading about the history of Xtianity and also allowed my doubts about the Bible to fully surface.

In retrospect, they did me a favor. I would have left sooner or later anyway, but it was sooner this way. Members told me to not let my unhappiness from the church drive me from Xianity, but they never understood that leaving the religion was based on my reading, logic, and simply the expiration of my thinly held beliefs that had existed the entire time I was a "Christian."

It is my understanding that the church petered out and is no longer in existence. In part, I am sure that it was a lack of funds; it was supported be a missionaries' association for a long time, but then they went brethren, they decided the association was not Biblical and they could no longer hold to the policies of the association. No money or little money=no church building and no salary for the elders.

@Gwendolyn2018 sounds funky to me.

Is a cross dresser the same as an angry dresser?

Hot pants .

I would love him to be confined to live in a gays only club for 12 months.

These people are obsessed with following a manual on how to live life. Someone should write them one like the Bible without all the god stuff in it and ask them what's so wrong with it. Then when they say it's just because reference to god is missing, then it will be obvious even to them that's their obsession - not that doing the right thing is the right thing. They've got it all mixed up and can't think anything through.

Can't find anything with pants in the Bible.
These are the closest things I can find.

Woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

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Exodus 28:42
You shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the hips to the thighs;

@Castlepaloma The first one is what she would reference..

@NHjulie Yep. And it still just comes down to it's supposedly some invisible persons' arbitrary whimsy, backed up with threats if you don't comply. It's the stuff of dictators, so it's no wonder the religious right are so infatuated with Trump.

There is indeed no end to the crazies in religion, this by definition.