[Vision2020] on ordaining women

[keely emerinemix]

Doug Wilson today on the ordination of Anglican/Episcopalian women as bishops:

"Putting on a bishop's mitre is not behaving like a woman. It is behaving like an ecclesiastical dyke."
It'll be a great day when a woman's call to Christian ministry is encouraged by the church when proved authentic by the Fruit of the Spirit within her, and a male minister can't rest on gender superiority when he consistently produces pastoral fruit unbecoming to the faith.  I question the pastoral call of a man who mocks his Christian sisters solely on the basis of their pursuit of ordination in a historic Christian denomination.  These women remain accountable to their denominations.  They don't run off and form new ones that guarantee that they and their best buddies will prosper, and they figure that genitalia and gender do not a minister make -- or break.  

If maleness qualifies Wilson for ministry, surely vitriol and vapidity should disqualify him.  There is no "father hunger" so great as to warrant his continued presence in the pulpit, much less his continued identification as a Christian minister.

Keely








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