Monica Potts of TAPPED passes along word that the Vatican’s new anti-sex-abuse policies also deals with a problem they see as even more equally pernicious.
...the attempted ordination of women as a “grave crime” subject to the same set of procedures and punishments meted out for sex abuse.
Hey, how about a nice round of screw you to those stupid little in-denial closet pedophiles and the (hobby)horses they rode up on?
I mean, yeah, if an unseemly taste for children, an abiding distaste for women, and a misunderstanding so deep that I couldn’t understand that when given the opportunity women in authority can sexually abuse boys with no less aplomb than men, then I’d be absolutely freaked out at the prospect of women as professional peers who might blow the whistle on me. And all things considered it’s easy to imagine that’s really what the Bishops and Cardinals are most concerned about. Even though they needn’t be.
And why yes, I am in rather a bad mood about this. Oddly, their main excuse for not ordaining women into the priesthood is that Jesus chose no women Disciples. This despite the fact that to the best of our knowledge none of Jesus’s Disciples were pedophiles either. And yet they’ve never threatened to excommunicate pedophiles… or for that matter the priests who ordained them… or for that matter the bishops, cardinals, and Popes who’ve whitewashed the whole sorry sex-abuse enterprise.
And why yes, my main point would just happen to be that archaic religious conceits about gender notwithstanding, the downsides of gender equivalence demonstrate the undeniability of gender equivalence just as much as the myriad upsides do. It’s not that there are no differences between men and women — at the very least the fact that every human being who’s ever existed has been a product of the union of biological male and female gametes makes that sort of irrefutable. The question instead is whether the differences are significant enough to warrant excluding one sex and privileging another, and the answer there is also irrefutably no.
Did I mention I was in a bad mood about this?
also, it’s easily argued that
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 2010-07-16 15:01.also, it’s easily argued that it says right in the bible that Mary Magdalene, a lady, was one of Jesus’ disciples. she was the first person he told he’d been resurrected, I think, and told her to go tell everyone else how awesome it was. sure catholics don’t believe it, but it’s just as valid (if not more so) than some interpretations of the bible. like, for example, the interpretations that say it’s somehow okay to be pedophile!
“.... and a misunderstanding
Submitted by Thaddeus (not verified) on Sat, 2010-07-17 13:50.“.... and a misunderstanding so deep that I couldn’t understand that when given the opportunity women in authority can sexually abuse boys with no less aplomb than men…”
[Chuckles]
You wicked, wicked man.
Don’t you know that Jesus has Andrea Dworkin strangle a kitten every time you say something like that? :D
Eh. They’re totally braced
Submitted by figleaf on Sun, 2010-07-18 14:30.Eh. They’re totally braced against accusations rising out of their own framing. Which is sort of the point of framing in the first place. So why indulge them? Especially when it’s also true that neither men or women are innately more or less moral than women or men.
Thanks, Thaddeus.
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Agreed on the bad mood
Submitted by Jill (not verified) on Wed, 2010-07-21 19:37.Agreed on the bad mood thing.
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