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The problem with “don’t eat alone with women”: good character is better than strict rules

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The story about VP Pence won’t eat alone with another woman or go to an event that serves alcohol unless his wife is in attendance at either scene is the dumbest non-story making waves. No excuse me, it’s more like farting in the liberal bathtub.

Yet in today’s world, I see nothing wrong with especially if he accidently rubs the shoulders of another woman and then WHAM! sexual harassment is filed.  But then with all the conspiracy and myth around POTUS Donnie we gotta get one concerning Pence – PB/TK

The problem with “don’t eat alone with women”: good character is better than strict rules – by

Several years ago, a male colleague and I left a meeting on one side of campus at the university where we both teach to return to our offices, a 15-minute walk away. Since I had driven my car to the meeting, I asked my colleague if he’d like a ride back. After an almost imperceptible hesitation, he politely thanked me and said no.

Walking to my car, I suddenly realized I’d just had my first encounter with the “Billy Graham rule,” a concept highlighted in recent news as a result of reports of Vice President Mike Pence’s longstanding principle of not having meals alone with a woman or attending events serving alcohol unless accompanied by his wife.

The rule, famously articulated by the evangelical minister Billy Graham, is basically a guideline that says men and women should not meet alone, whether in offices, or cars, or other places in order to avoid illicit temptations or appearances of impropriety. It’s been adopted by other evangelical pastors and leaders (a history of its origin is here): The late founder of the evangelical university where I work was known for saying that he’d pass by a female member of his church walking in the rain if he were alone in his car.

Continue to vox.com article: http://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/4/1/15142744/mike-pence-billy-graham-rule

 

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