A website entitled "People Against Fundamentalism" is setting up a direct action against the Seattle megachurch Mars Hill for December 3rd at 11am outside their Ballard campus to protest the preachings of Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll. There is a certain...passion to the website's descriptions of Mark and his attitudes towards women, as you can see here:

'Preaching' may be too staid of a term. He [Mark Driscoll] has been relishing in his misogyny, rolling around in it like a feline in catnip. His latest women-bashing came in a blog post about former pastor (and former head of the Christian umbrella organization National Association of Evangelicals) Ted Haggard's marital infidelity. As is typical with misogynists and other abusers, Mark blamed women for the terribly hard time pastors have controlling their sexual urges: "It is not uncommon to meet pastors' wives who really let themselves go..." The post makes for an interesting read; Helen, over at Conversation at the Edge dissected it well, so I won’t rehash it here.

The site goes on to further explain the motivations behind the direct action:

After standing by while Misogynist Mark beats up on women regularly, it is time for us to stand up for the oppressed. People Against Fundamentalism is sickened by the injustice preached from the Mars Hill pulpit. We are done standing by while Mark the Misogynist takes his misguided religion and hollows out the humanity, dignity, and equality of the women in our midst.

Here at Seattlest we hold Ariel Meadow Stalling's post about her Sunday in church to be the gospel on the subject of women's place at Mars Hill. Notice that at no point does she resort to name calling:

This was where it got deeply weird. The pastor read from the bible, and then explained that it didn't mean God-fearing women shouldn't speak — really, the passage only applied to "feminist women with an agenda." He went on for quite some time about how awful feminism is — it's not worth recounting, other than the part where he said "Women say they want to be treated like men, but then when we actually treat them like men they cry." Everyone laughed. It was awful.

Oh, and check out the slick new Mars Hill website. If you look in the Media Library there are a lot of sermons and such to download. Here's a Mother's Day sermon slamming career women.

(Thanks WS Blog)