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coming on church property for any reason,” the letter warned. Hitt said this effectively barred her and her twin sons from what had been a center of their lives.
On Sunday, April 11 Marc Fisher a local columnist for The Washington Post wrote a story about the church’s action. The multi-column story running on a day when the Post’s circulation exceeds one million readers heated up the firehouse conversations and Rappnet exchanges in Rappahannock County.
Taylor and Mills claim Hitt’s charges are laced with omissions, exaggerations and outright misrepresentations.
The pastor said the church has offered each of the last three pastors an option to buy a home to allow them to build equity. He said his plan was to do it at no cost to the church by renting the parsonage, where he fives at no cost, and getting enough rent to pay his mortgage and save the church money as well.
Both he and Mills said that there was no unusual confidentiality in preparing for the transaction, but that all financial decisions are handled by small groups and brought before the congregation when they’re finalized.
Hitt claims that in the spring of 2003, two deacons told her that because of her outburst she would not be allowed to teach in vacation Bible school.
A short time later, she met Taylor and asked him, “Why don’t you want me here?”
She said Taylor told her “women should be seen and not heard.” Taylor angrily dubbed the remark a complete fabrication. “Why would I say that? Bible school is taught by women and if I said that, it would mean we’re not going to have a Bible school.”
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