I grew up in the traditional hardcore "Missouri Synod" Lutheran church that to this day does not ordain women, has a "love the sinner but hate the sin" view on homosexuality, vehemently challenges a woman's right to choose, etc.

The ELCA, or rather its predecessor the Lutheran Church in America, began ordaining women in 1970. After moving my membership from the Missouri Synod to the ELCA I found a refreshing "freshness" to the ministry when both men and women are seen as pastors and leaders in the church. Further for communion, lay members assist the pastoral staff which brings a level of inclusiveness to the sacrament.

I have an Aunt who still belongs in the MS tradition and we often have heated arguments about such matters. I tell her that her church will eventually wither away and die because when the ministry is not something to which many people aspire and you tell nearly 52% of the population they need not apply and you have a no tolerance policy on gay clergy, you are left with a very small pool of candidates.

The fact that in the Jesus narrative he surrounded himself with men (and a few women) is no reason to deny women the priesthood. It was the culture of the time but there is nothing in the Bible that prohibits women as teachers "rabbi". It was the early Christian church with a patriarchal pedigree that limited the priesthood to males.

I think that God isn't happy after all she created both men and women. How could a man create anything, really? As a gay man the world was either created by a woman or a gay man.

feminine (Maya), and that only the "creator" that underpins it is "masculine" (Brahman).

the main reason for my assertion of the feminine pronoun is to challenge traditional notions that "God" is male. I suspect that if there is a monotheistic "God", "it" is neither female nor male because it has no purpose in pro-creation. At best it might share traits of both genders. But biologically speaking the purpose for gender was to procreate.

At the point of the service at which the archbishop asks the congregation "is it your will that she becomes a bishop", the congregation said 'yes' loudly, and then one man said "no, I object, it's against the law, and I wish to be able to state the reasons" (roughly), but the service continued. After a bit more from the archbishop on why she is lawfully becoming a bishop, there was another question to the congregation with a 'yes' answer, and this time there was no objection.

The commentator said he suspects it was a man who has been trying to stop this through the courts, and has been declared a vexatious litigant.