DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! Women who have sex before marriage are like ‘filthy dishrags,’ California pastor roars

California pastor compared women
who had sex before marriage to “filthy
dishrags” in a sermon posted online.
Paul Chappell, founder and president of West
Coast Baptist College and pastor of Lancaster
Baptist Church, lamented what he perceives to
be a lack of purity and modesty among
women.
“One wonders, whatever happened to
purity?” he asked in the sermon. “Whatever
happened to that? Whatever happened to the
days when girls said, I’m not going to be
touched by every guy? I’m not going to walk
down the aisle like a filthy dishrag on my
wedding day. Whatever happened to that
day?”
He insisted he meant no offense to anyone
who had sinned, but he complained about
perceived criticism of a recent “purity pledge”
that drew the participation of hundreds of
teens at his church.
“I don’t want to sound weird tonight, (but)
there’s a reason when ladies come up here to
sing that the rule, if you want to use it, the
standard – I don’t care what you call it, call it
legalism, call it control – I don’t care what you
call it, there is a standard in this church that
the dresses are going to come down to the
knee when a lady stands up here,” Chappell
said.
He said he’s been asked why he’s so “old-
fashioned.”
“I’ve counseled too many men to know that if
we don’t have everything covered just right
they’re not going to wonderful grace and
Jesus,” Chappell said, as men in the crowd
shouted “amen.”
“I get so sick and tired of going to weddings
and, it’s the bride’s day, and here’s some
Jezebel with hardly any clothes on strutting
around the wedding,” he said. “Look – you
come to a wedding around here, show some
respect to the bride. You go to a funeral,
women do the exact same thing.”
“You come to the house of God, it ought not
to be a flesh show!” Chappell roared. “It ought
to be a place where Jesus is lifted high and
his holiness is remembered.”