Discussion 1 to A Miscellany 282
An affront to the eyes of God
by: JT
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On the same theme as Jimmy Carters' comments, Roger Ebert takes up the issue in his blog:
An affront to the eyes of God
In closing, Ebert referred to the recent Hitchens-Blair debate writing:
Blair and Hitchens made points one might agree with, and points one might not. At one point, Hitchens asked Blair a question that hung in the air for a second and went unanswered, because Blair must have had no answer. This was the question:
"Is it good for the world to consider women as an inferior form, as all religions do?"
The article is well worth taking the time to read.
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One of the videos Ebert uses to support his comments is this one by a Fr. Edgardo Arellano on the ordination of women who argues that this is a closed issue.
Note that when this self-satisfied priest finds it necessary to refer to the pedophilia scandal in his church, he dishonestly calls it a homosexual scandal. Later in his sermon, he talks about the trivialization of sex. A better example of trivialization would be the equating of same-sex relations between consenting adults to an adult forcing his unwanted attentions on an unwilling child. There's a fundamental difference - and this priest chooses to be blind to it.