Featured Lewd Chapel Message at Louisiana College

There is nothing wrong with what he said. Grow up.
If mowing the lawn offended you, I bet you couldn't sit through a good Song of Soloman sermon. It's much more graphic than lawn mowing.

 

The terminology used, "mow the lawn", was crude and inappropriate.
The idea of a preacher suggesting how women should conduct their personal grooming habits is inappropriate.
Furthermore, whether or not a woman should "mow the lawn" is a personal decision and not subject to input from a man that is not the woman's husband.

End of story.

 

It is Chapel. They are there to be educated. It was appropriate. The ones who got offended were probably the ones who should follow his advice.

 

So, in your opinion, all women should "mow the lawn"?

How much lawn? All of it?
How short?
What pattern, if any?

This is what I mean by inappropriate.

 

Whatever length their husband wants.
This is why a young Christian man I know told his very prudish mother, "Mama, I am going to the Philistines to find my wife." He didn't literally mean non Christian. He meant far away from his legalistic, prudish, church.

 

So, in your opinion, all women should "mow the lawn"?

 

IMO this is the bigger story. The content and context of the comments will not be brought to light because LC is in full cover up mode. They have a history of this and now is more of the same. No transparency will be forthcoming. The school used to upload videos of the chapel services to YouTube. They kept Dara’s sermon off of it, and apparently deleted them all at some point. The Chapel Schedule & Videos page has been removed or is "temporarily unavailable." I wondered why a "pirated" version from somebody's phone hasn't cropped up, but their chapel policy doesn't allow members of the audience to video or audio tape the message. That in itself sounds a bit sketchy to me.

 

That would be up to their husband. I honestly don't think his comment was about genital hair. I am still fine with it if it was. I think he was talking about body hair in general. When I was in college, about half the women didn't shave anything. Not legs, not arm pits, not anything.

 

With the lack of context, anyone can think or imagine what they wish about Pastor Dara's comments. Most people have accepted the construction of them being a sexual nature (e.g. mow the lawn being in the pubic area, not the armpits). This makes me think that the video will prove what he said is as bad or worse than the accusations -- else why would Louisiana College not just put it out there to clear up the confusion? Rather, they hid it from the get-go.