[Diva]

"Now women will just be candlesticks on the altar!" ************ I must admit that attitudes such as this leave me speechless.

I can assure the entire table was speechless. : ) It was mostly guys who were more conservative and truely happy that Cardinal Ratzinger was Pope.

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, did somebody stand up and fling a glass of water on her . . . with the excuse that she must have been feeling faint to say such a thing?

You gotta call these people out SOME time . . . when people in our parish start going soft on feminism, I blast them with the Awful Warning of the Episcopal Church. It's all one package - feminism, heterodoxy, and disobedience.

. . p.s. . . . I sing tenor too, and baritone in a pinch. But now that we have a GREAT men's section in the choir, I can stick to singing alto. Now we need to work on stopping the excessive vibrato in the soprano section . . . < rolls eyes >