ROC

In a July 16 story “Atheist gives invocation in Greece,” it was reported that several women in the audience the night of the invocation at the Greece Town Hall wore T-shirts that read “I’m an atheist because ... I have read it” on the front with this corresponding message on the back: “1 Corinthians 14:34, Women should remain silent in the Churches.”

A few days later, we learned that Bishop Salvatore Matano is forbidding women in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester to deliver homilies in its churches. Yes, that’s right. The good bishop is silencing women in Catholic churches.

Ah, if only Elizabeth Cady Stanton were here today to sit Bishop Matano down and share this famous advice of hers: “Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew from your spectacles and see that the world is moving.”

LINDA STEPHENS

GREECE