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Thanks for your comments, you know that I deeply respect and appreciate your theological reasoning. I did not mean to imply that the early Christians didn't meet together for worship on Sundays long before Constantine. They certainly did as is attested to within Scripture in several places. My mentioning this point was to show that they also had a tradition of going to the temple on the Sabbath (as Paul said he took advantage of many times to teach that Jesus was the Messiah). The recognition of changing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday was by the decree of Constantine in 321.

I also agree that women should be careful to dress modestly and not be drawing attention to themselves in a way that overtly invites lust. I certainly think that admonition can be done by faithful women today even if they do wear pants, since pants are no longer - in our society - associated solely as menswear. My example was based on a few students I had when I taught at a Christian school. Their parents had placed them with our new school mainly because of the intolerance exhibited by another school that told their students their mothers were going to Hell because they wore pants! To me, that was placing a tradition in too high of a place over sensible understanding of Scripture with regards to modesty and freedom in Christ. To me, that church went too far.

Thanks for your understanding and appreciation. There certainly are extremes, though it today it is more on the libertarian side, as we become more like the society in which we exists. The RCC did as well, and so we must and i must obey Rm. 12:1+2 more deeply.

Their parents had placed them with our new school mainly because of the intolerance exhibited by another school that told their students their mothers were going to Hell because they wore pants!

That's their control through intimidation tactic. Catholics need to be more concerned about the idolatry and man made doctrines that is pushed on them as 'of God'. What heresy that is!

Talk about manly/womanly dress - the priests and nuns looked the same in their black garbed dresses. How manly does the hierarchy look in their fussy sparkled gowns. So much for their pants are for men only when dresses are the standard for men/priests.