[Apologetics] Women priests and the US law

Stuart D. Gathman stuart at bmsi.com
Wed Jun 11 22:06:59 EDT 2008


On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Stephen Korsman wrote:

> Ms F. Eminist applies to a Catholic seminary in communion with Pope Benedict
> XVI (just to make sure we know it's not some reincarnationist Catholic Church
> such as the one I discovered in South Africa some years back) in order to
> study for the priesthood.  The seminary says no.  Ms F. Eminist takes the
> seminary to court.  Judge L. Iberal hears the case, and she decides that the
> seminary is discriminating and that Ms F. Eminist must be accepted.  Whatever
> appeals to higher courts are made fail to change the verdict.
> 
> What will the US Catholic Church do in this situation?
> 
> What will the US Catholic Church do when all Ms F. Eminist's supporters
> register themselves as Catholics at their local parish (to avoid being
> rejected because they're not Catholic, if they're not nominally so already),
> wait a year or two (to make it clear they're established Catholics) and then
> decide to apply to seminaries (again, Catholic ones in communion with Pope
> Benedict XVI) to become priests?

The same thing that open source workers (both commercial and personal)
do in response to unjust and illegal applications of copyright and
patent law: move the seminaries to a less fascist country.

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