[AnAmericanMother]

I am a reactionary, and I find myself becoming more so as I get older. :-D

Seriously, as I told a well-meaning Catholic layman who thought priestesses wouldn't be such a bad idea, it's a package deal. You allow the ordination of women, and all the other stuff comes in the door as well.

Amusing point: he was praising a local Episcopal female priest as a "good person" and so forth . . . I asked if he knew that she had left her parish here, been promoted to an administrative position in ECUSA, and had LED the ECUSA contingent, complete with banner, in the pro-abortion march on Washington this summer.

He did NOT know that. Sort of took him aback. (She was always a loony feminist crusader type . . . "goddess worship" and New Age crud abounded at her (small) parish.

[Mark in the Old South]

People only want to consider the superficial nature of a person. It makes it all the easier to see the "good" in someone if your only value judgment is if they are good at small talk over coffee after the morning service or at a cocktail party. A fine trait as far as it goes but a pastor or Bishop should be looking a little deeper. I think at the root of this sort of thing is deception or neglect on the part of most of these "leaders". We will have to look elsewhere for guidance because it isn't coming from them.