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No, you're a "problem" because you think that a boy is so insecure that if a female also hands one of the cruets to father the altar boy's whole little world will be shattered.

Actually, as an older sister of three all American boys, I don't think this - I KNOW it.

What I do with my own time, is my own affair. I do not stand at the church door and wag my finger at anyone. In another 40-50 years I'll be old enough to do so, but at the moment, I try my darnedest not to pay attention to girls' fashions because they don't know how to dress. I was lucky enough to have a mother and grandmother who cared enough to be sure my sister and I learned what is decent and what isn't.

Think about equity and justice for once.

I have. I think it is wrong for women to encroach on everything men do. There are some things that we should just respectfully allow to be a male, character building experience. So many poor boys aren't learning what it means to be masculine.

Did you have a sister that regularly beat the snot out of you?

My sister would never do anything of the sort. SHe did a lot of pushing, though.

Or if you are a woman, were you one of those "weak sisters" that threw a ball "like a girl" and resented any any girl that didn't feel like hanging around wearing pink all day and giggling about boys and had a life of her own not ordained or governed by your little clique of what was "socially proper?"

I had a better pitch than a lot of boys I knew and still have a much better batting stance, but truthfully, my sport was swimming. Well, I also was in ballet, gymnastics, figure skating and still am in music. I was never in a clique. The girls I went to school with were mean, nasty and had not the slightest idea of how to be feminine. And none of them had any interest in being, either.

My interest is in fostering young boys so that they grow up to be good men. That takes guidance from men. One does not need to serve Mass to have a solid relationship with Christ. I have one. I go to Adoration once a week, confession regularly, say my Rosary every day. I don't buy that girls "have" to serve Mass to have a good relationship with Christ.

I agree that no girl "has" to serve mass to have a good relationship with God. But that is different from saying she should be PROHIBITED on account of her being a female from doing that function. And just how insecure were your little brothers? REAL men need not fear REAL women. REAL men do not quake in fear if REAL women are capable. It's a lesson they should ALL learn when boys are learning that girls do not have "cooties" and girls are learning that boys do not have "cooties." There is no "separate but equal" opportunity existing if girls can't be altar servers. I have no problem with "boy scouts" or any of that. Girls can have clubs and organizations too, that provide similar experiences. But if the laity is "equal" then the church should act like it!