Men's and women's "head coverings," discussed in 1Co 11:2-16, can actually be understood as wild hair. Men's effeminate hair symbolized homosexuality, and women's hair let down loose symbolized sexual freedom. Consequently, Paul prohibited those leading worship from either practice. Men ought to respect both Christ, their source in creation, and woman, their source in birth, by not displaying effeminate hair. Women ought to exercise control over their heads by wearing their hair up in public worship to symbolize fidelity in marriage and respect to man, their source in creation. The climax of the passage affirms that in Christ, women and men are not separate. Consequently, both men and women may pray and prophesy in church, but should do so in a way that does not undermine marriage.

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