re allowed be married, are not allowed to drink of un-sacrificial alcohol and that mass only occurs on Sundays. However all these laws have been broken to meet the requirements of the modern day? Priests can not be married, are allowed to drink alcohol and have sermons on Saturdays, and during the week. In the same passage it states that women, whoever they are, may not become ordained or serve in the church. Firstly, already women have been playing a very large role in the Catholic Church, and in the Anglican and Uniting Church women have already been ordained. Secondly, every other law in this passage has been broken. Why then, the only law in this passage not to be broken is the law on female priests? This is why this topic is such a controversial one in that if we do enforce the law that women may be ordained, we are questioning the importance of turning to the Bible for help and guidance as we are going against it. As gender discrimination becomes as abhorrent to the public as racism, denominations will be under increased pressure to conform to the non-sexist secular standard, by judging candidates for ordination on the basis of knowledge, personality, commitment, ability, etc, not on their gender. Unfortunately and predominately people hold the thought that this argument is strictly a one-sided and biased way to say that women are not capable of being ordained. The fact is, and it is stated in the Bible, that the argument is very biased in that the Bible did not even allow for women to prove themselves worthy of the Catholic Church, instead making a generalistic and stereotypical view that women are not capable. The Bible states that “For it were Adam that was made first and Eve next”. This stresses the fact that perhaps women were not even allowed to have their say on what goes on in the church because of what order they were made in. Therefore judgments should only be made on fair and sincere bases. Not based on the ...
