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'Scolded For Being Female': PA Woman Accuses Church Of Gender Discrimination 'Scolded For Being Female': PA Woman Accuses Church Of Gender Discrimination
'Scolded For Being Female': PA Woman Accuses Church Of Gender Discrimination A Pennsylvania woman says she was disqualified from a church raffle and discriminated against due to her gender. Emily Smaniotto had entered a raffle winning a bow fishing trip during the annual Wild Game Dinner at the Bethel Baptiste Church in North Union (Fayette County) when the troubles began, she said. At first, the organizer announced the raffle was "for men only," but thinking he was joking, and with the the encouragement of seeing another woman enter, Smaniotto thought nothing of it. The other woman's name was drawn first, according to Smaniotto. "As soon as they called her name …

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by Jillian Pikora