But all are One in Christ
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The principle of non-discrimination in the body of Christ is evident in scripture. http://bible.cc/galatians/3-28.htm. In Christ there just isn't any male or female in terms
of status, rank, importance, piety or virtue. All are one in Christ. We are the same. We hold these truths to be self evident. All men are created equal, and created equal with women. That is why it does not defile a man to take a wife- as God intended and said this was the plan for everyone. This is why an all unmarried priesthood is a blasphemy.
Male priests forcedly ALL married to an institution, or married to each other effectively or married to the Pope or his doctrine is a missing of the mark. Profoundly.
This is one of the biggest stumbling blocks to true ecumenicism. The entire Orthodox world has rejected the doctrine since at least the Fifth Century and the rest of all the Protestant/Anglican world since at least the Sixteenth Century.
The perversion is that priests take girlfriends anyway-they just deprive them of the full honor of open marriage-and those that do have honor are forced out of the church like Father Cutie. The emotional marriages that priests enter into can be twisted and harmful to many more people than the actual de facto wife. It encourages deception and abuse on many levels. It is just Bull-Shine. There isn't a parish, I venture to surmise that hasn't had its share of it.
It fosters manipulations and more deceptions. No, it isn't what Jesus thinks his church should be about. It's sheer hubris not to revisit the married priesthood option. That doesn't mean those more comfortable in orders wouldn't stay there- it means that the closet heterosexual players have to come out of the closet and make honest women of their conquests and crushes rather than use it to bilk them of their offerings.
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