Monday, October 31, 2005
ST. JOAN OF ARC FEMINIST TANTRUM
I am so tired of them. The feminists who want power in the Church. I'd like to find a magic wand that would wave them into another denomination.
A reader sent in their latest rant.
Their spokeswoman was Delores Seahorse. Their commission was formed 25 years ago by Archbishop Roach. (I am practicing intense custody of the fingers...!)
The overriding concern of participants is that women are second-class citizens in the Church. They feel that ordination of women is an equal rights/justice issue, and that they are not being heard on this or on any other matter. One woman said, “Women are 50% of the membership but the power is 100% male.” The group clearly wants women to be able to be ordained, to be permanent deacons, and to have a proportionate role in decision-making including a loud voice in how money is spent.
What power is it exactly that they think they are lacking by not being priests? Don't they realize that the women run most of the parish organizations, and it is those organizations that set the tone of the parish? Don't they have places on the finance committee and whatever other parish committees there are that touch on the governance of parish life? What more do they think they need? Most of our pastors are henpecked already for goodness sake.
“God gave us freedom of choice. Why doesn’t the Church let us choose?” asked one woman. The group agreed that the Church needs to spend more time in learning how to deal with “gray” areas and that it is not equipped to deal with a mature faith.
I agree that the Church needs to spend a lot more time in learning how to deal with "gray" areas...about 20 more years should do the trick judging by the pictures!
They are threatening to withhold money and boycott parishes. Go ahead ladies. Make yourselves look even more foolish than you already look. Take yourselves off to--oh, say the Episcopal Church for instance. I think you'll be much happier over there. Don't they ever look around and notice that younger women have passed them by? Doesn't it ever occur to them that they sound like a broken record? The Church has answered their complaints. The Church said "No." Now go home and scrub the floor or something, and leave those of us women who want to get back to talking about God and other important stuff to get on with it.
