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Old 12-20-2005, 09:42 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Cowperson
Also . . . .

. . . . women are prohibited from singing in public, except to a segregated female-only audience. Hard-liners were afraid the voice of a woman soloist might arouse impure thoughts in men. Women are allowed to sing as part of a chorus.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...n1139859.shtml

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We could offer to send Jan Arden and Rita McNeil over to Iran to show the Iranian hardliners that not all female singers inspire "impure thoughts."
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