Try to read this without rolling your eyes...
"Women can be Christ-like as well as any man, but we wouldn't choose a woman to play the role of Hamlet, right?"
This quotation comes from Janet Smith, the "chair of life ethics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit," in her defense of an all-male priesthood, given in an interview with Christiane Amanpour.
People desperate to defend the indefensible say the darndest things.
People desperate to defend the indefensible say the darndest things.
posted by PrickliestPear at 1:13 p.m.
4 Comments:
Oh my that's too funny since Shakespearean theatre began with men playing Juliet. My how things haven't changed.
Oh, brother.
that is bad.
Almost makes you think our seminary training system must be promoting some pretty shallow thinking these days, doesn't it? :-)
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