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To: wallcrawlr

"You may see homos and women as equal but I don't."

True. Being a woman is obviously not a sin, but living in a sexually active gay relationship is a sin.

However, there is a nexus between the two issues. Like gay sex, the ordination of women is Bibilically forbidden, both explicitly and implicitly. And like gay sex, women's ordination works to undermine the presupposition that God created two equal, but differing, sexes with different roles.

I know that there are women pastors in the mainline denominations who have opposed gay lib theology. However, if you look at the recent history of the mainline Protestant denominations, it is those which have ordained women which now have organized movements promoting gay ordination, pantheism, etc. This is not just a coincidence. The denominations which have been orthodox enough to reject women's ordination (the Southern Baptists, Wisconsin and Missouri Synod Lutherans, the PCA, etc) do not have internal gay or pantheistic movements.


97 posted on 08/02/2005 2:49:33 PM PDT by FederalistPhred
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To: FederalistPhred
I know that there are women pastors in the mainline denominations who have opposed gay lib theology. However, if you look at the recent history of the mainline Protestant denominations, it is those which have ordained women which now have organized movements promoting gay ordination, pantheism, etc. This is not just a coincidence. The denominations which have been orthodox enough to reject women's ordination (the Southern Baptists, Wisconsin and Missouri Synod Lutherans, the PCA, etc) do not have internal gay or pantheistic movements.

Yep, thats what I see too. Most churchs that accept woman pastors are liberal. Cant disagree with you at all.

But then I think...is that the fault of the woman or the church.

You see, I am not going to discredit the good women that Ive had experience with. To me its not an easy blanket judgement. Yes, I know what scripture says but I can not condemn the work Ive seen done. Its not just a girl thing to me. Maybe God will condem my friends and the work they do...but I wont.
So like my earlier post to my buddie newg, to continue "beating me over the head" with it will not work. The Spirit has not convicted me on what Ive seen. Not all women pastors are "Bad".

99 posted on 08/02/2005 2:59:31 PM PDT by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com)
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