Serious Pants/ Skirts Question... Not Trying to Debate... Thanks!

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Originally Posted by BobDylan

Are there any takers for serious discussion on this topic? Any conservative brethren who want to weigh in? I would really like to hear some good balanced point of discussion from the conservative corner... again, not trying to debate, just trying to get a balanced perspective on the most relevant application and interpretation of Deut 22:5 for us today....

Bob, I stayed out of this pretty much. But after this weekend, some of the things I saw and some of the reflections I have from it, I guess as time permits, I have a few things to say.

I am sure that Newman and others will weigh in on how stupid I am but that is fine.


First, let me say that by an large, with the exception of those wonderful men who have held an old standard, the genie is out of the bottle and as the old saying goes, you cant push water up a hill.

My thoughts are that those who have left skirts for pants have done so mainly because they no longer believe that Deu. 22:5 applies. I think that may be a valid argument on some level. to a 15 year old girl today, there was never a time when men wore pants and women wore skirts. The older ones have some memory but the younger ones dont...except those in old time Apostolic churches.

Having said that, my wife doesnt wear pants and while we dont have a daughter yet, there isnt going to be a day when my money buys her pants, nor a day when my roof shelters a pair of pants in her closet.

What I see is that OP women didnt leave skirts, they left modesty. (go ahead ladies take your best shot). Maybe some of the older ones have maintained some degree of modesty, but they arent teaching their daughters. Makes me nuts.

Modesty means something and this leaving the skirts behind has crossed a bridge in the heart that has led many here to suggest that Modesty as defined BY THE WORLD is all that is needed. what a crock. I see OP girls in pants that look like they were painted on. I dont care what the church kids think, I care that they are no different than the world and we are STILL CALLED TO BE SEPERATE

yea, Im yelling. Im angry. we have lost something much more important than skirts.