Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sexism in the church?? Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 91 05:58:20 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Free Software Foundation, Cambridge, MA Lines: 18 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas Blake) writes: Just last night I was speaking to a good clergy friend. Once again, she has had to deal with someone (clergy of a different denomination) questioning her call. Her first question. "Could he refuse his calling?" When he replied that he couldn't, she asked him how he could ask her to refuse hers. After that, she made him the invitation she has made to others who have questioned her calling. "Come, and hear me preach. And then we'll discuss whether or not my calling is genuine." She's never been taken up on this invitation. Hmmm...this story echoes the past of several gay ministers I know. In fact, it echoes it almost exactly in one case. -mib