Outrage...well, not really

I got a little chuckle from all the news reports yesterday from Watertown, NY. The story is about an 81 year old woman that was asked to not teach Bible school anymore at a baptist church. The only public reason given was that the church has decided to not allow women to teach men in Bible school.

The funny part is the media's outrage that a church is taking a "literal view of scripture". I didn't realize we had a choice on whether we take literal writings literally or not. Isn't it pretty clear what are literal vs. poetic or apocolyptic writings?

Maybe they shouldn't let her teach a Bible school because she doesn't seem to grasp the ideas of inspiration and authority of scripture.