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To: LadyDoc
One only has to see the rest of the agenda of those promoting “womanpriests” to see that it isn’t about a woman being a priest, but about changing the church to accept artificial birth control, divorce, unwed parenthood as normal, abortion, forced family limitations under the name of population control (which is what Hillary is pushing on us here in the Philippines), homosexual behavior as normal, premarital sex as normal etc....and eventually, as the population ages and has no one to care for them, they will go on to promote euthanasia for the old and “useless”...

My experience has never been with the women who claim to be priests in the Catholic Church, nor would I attend one of their services when visiting a Catholic church. My current minister is a strict believer that the Bible says what it means and means what it says, as was the other female minister for my church many years ago. I haven't seen an "agenda" from either one beyond preaching the Gospel honestly and adjusting our lives to fit scripture - with a clear rejection of adjusting the meaning of scripture to fit personal convenience. Both have strongly disapproved of divorce, with the exception of cases of abuse or adultery (a small stretch from Christ's position okaying divorce only for adultery, but I'm okay with that). Both have strongly disapproved of abortion and euthanasia. The first read scripture on both adultery and homosexuality in support of occasional sermons and interpreted them as I do - which is the only logical interpretation. The second hasn't had time to address that topic from the pulpit, but when I asked her about it her answer was precise, unambiguous, and based on scripture. The difference is perhaps that my church permits women to serve from the pulpit so we get mainstream women, while only a woman who rejects Church teachings would pretend to be a Catholic priest.

54 posted on 07/31/2011 3:29:16 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Pollster1

Ministers are preachers, not priests. There are women preachers/prophets in the old testament and new testament, but the apostles are men, and the old testament priests are men.

The Catholic church has many women preachers who are strict Christians (Mother Angelica comes to mind).


59 posted on 07/31/2011 12:38:25 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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