Letters to the Editor
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the church should STAND for something
Whats with this wishy-washy pleasing everyone crap? I'm sorry, but either you believe women are equal to men in God's eyes or you don't. No 'we want to keep as many members as possible' out clause. The church (any church) should have a strong ethical and moral code. If certain church members don't like it, they can get out.
Just look at the Catholic church. They think God doesn't want women priests. They think that the hoi poli shouldn't be reading the bible, and that a priest is needed to intercede between God and the 'flock'. They think that birth control is a sin and homosexuality is wrong wrong wrong. They think the Pope is God's rep on earth. Good for them. Its for all those reasons and more that I'm NOT Catholic. Why would I be a member of a church I don't agree with?
For the Anglicans, if they honestly believe in women's equality as an important ethical and moral issue, they should just say "this is how it is." And all the people who don't like who it is can go off and form their own religion. Kind of like how the Anglicans formed their own religion after they got cheesed off about the Pope interfereing with them back in the day.