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To: Huber
Yikes! This is not going to end well.

I'm with the poster somewhere in the middle of that lengthy discussion, who pointed to the "Gamaliel principle".

I was in the somewhat unique position of being a member for 28 years of an ECUSA "training parish" for a large and populous (at least it was then) diocese. Every priest ordained in the diocese spent a period of time in my former parish as a sort of "shakedown cruise" before going to a first assignment.

With ONE exception in 28 years, none of the women ordained in that diocese (and there were a lot of them) were fit to serve as priests. Some were frankly seeking political power, some pushing a radical lesbian agenda (at least that one got fired but she probably wouldn't be these days), some were seeking an answer to their own neuroses. Only one seemed to have sought ordination because she wanted to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and tend his sheep. But even she supported the homosexual consecration/ gay marriage thing, on the grounds of "social justice".

This controversy was brought over from ECUSA, and not too many of the wrangling disputants seem to realize that that was the camel's nose under the tent in the first place.

4 posted on 01/04/2009 10:48:16 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse (TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary - recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother
With ONE exception in 28 years, none of the women ordained in that diocese (and there were a lot of them) were fit to serve as priests. Some were frankly seeking political power, some pushing a radical lesbian agenda (at least that one got fired but she probably wouldn't be these days), some were seeking an answer to their own neuroses. Only one seemed to have sought ordination because she wanted to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and tend his sheep. But even she supported the homosexual consecration/ gay marriage thing, on the grounds of "social justice".

You make the (perhaps understandable) mistake of attributing unfitness, agenda-pushing, and neurosis-indulgence only to women. I promise, having recently "done time" in an Episcopal seminary, it is not a problem that breaks down along gender lines. It's not a male or female thing.

6 posted on 01/04/2009 11:23:03 AM PST by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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