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To: AnAmericanMother
Our church is a "training parish" - a large parish in which newly ordained priests spend a year or two in a sort of apprenticeship before they are sent out to smaller parishes.

Ours is too, I go to the Church of the Presidents actually. And all the political correctness to go along with that. In fact our female asst. Rector announced her “liberal” political disposition in a sermon last month. NO SURPRISE! A quick story; when we went through reconfirmation classes we had to suffer a sermon on “homophobia” from “Bishop” Jane Dixon at the National Cathedral. It was totally out of line not to mention my 9-year-old son had to hear it having not been exposed to homosexuality before. It was extremely obvious that there were several lesbian “rectors” from other parishes participating in the service as well, I was pretty grossed out.

As for female clergy in general I have no bias for or against other than (1 Corinthians 14:34-35) and (1 Timothy 2:11-14). I am sorry to hear about your negative experiences with the female clergy in your parish but don’t use anecdotal evidence sway your opinion, just let The Word guide you.

36 posted on 12/17/2002 8:09:06 AM PST by Clint N. Suhks
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To: Clint N. Suhks
Well, I tend to look to my own experience as well as Scripture to guide me (I mean, Scripture's plain and it's right there to read, but I also consider the practical aspect of the principle in application. It hasn't worked out very well. Sort of like considering the prohibition against pork in the Old Testament in light of trichinosis . . . :-D )

Another thing that your post called to mind . . . there is NO WAY that a female priest could have risen sufficiently high in the hierarchy to be consecrated a Bishop as quickly as the Episcopal Church did. (Who was that nutty woman who became the bishop of Boston? I think she was the first, and she hadn't even been ordained all that long.) For women to be taken seriously as priests, the higher-ups need to quit promoting them for invidious reasons.

37 posted on 12/17/2002 8:58:44 AM PST by AnAmericanMother
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