From Whittenburg Door
BAPTISTS, CATHOLICS DRAFT DRESS CODE
Door fashion editor Chris Mikesell reports:
In an uncommon display of ecumenical solidarity, Southern Baptist and Roman Catholic church leaders have united to propose a dress code aimed at keeping their clergy out of trouble.
"First, we're not calling it a dress code," says Dupont Wexler, board member of Baptists USA!, an organization that supports and lobbies on behalf of Southern Baptists. "Wearing dresses is part of the problem we're seeking to address."
The "apparel guidelines," as Wexler calls them, specify clothing appropriate for all situations – from formal wear at weddings to track suits for jogging to bathing suits for visits to the ocean, lake, or pool. (In a special section for Southern Baptist ministers, bathing suits are also recommended for actual bathing ... not, of course, with members of the opposite sex.) Speedos, however, are deemed "never appropriate."
A full list of the Baptist-Catholic "attire guidelines" will be released to the press in the near future.