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...have been bending before the feminists, and the feminists think the bishops have caved in to Vatican pressure." After agreeing to prepare the document in 1983, the bishops made an elaborate effort to hear out alienated women. Some 75,000 women offered written and oral testimony, and the first draft in 1988 was filled with accounts of their distress. That version urged rapid study of the idea of allowing women to be deacons, who perform many ministerial functions, and more leisurely consideration of priesthood...
Conservatives still dislike this week's fourth draft because they oppose calls for inclusive language and local women's commissions, which they see as permanent nests for feminist activism. Liberals are far more infuriated, because the bishops' writing panel backed off on allowing female deacons, much less priests; dropped the assertion that inability to relate well to women should bar a man from the priesthood; and even shelved the declaration that sexism...
...prevailing view among middle-of-the-road Catholics appears to be that no letter at all would have been better than the tepid lip service embodied in the fourth draft. "It has been revised and qualified into insignificance," says theologian Rausch with a shrug. On the left, Ruth Fitzpatrick, leader of Women's Ordination Conference, finds it "pitiful that after nine years of work, this shoddy piece of paper is the best they can come up with." Feminist Schneiders argues that "you cannot say, 'Sexism is a sin except when we practice it.' Sexual apartheid is not acceptable...
...spent his weekend evenings with a microphone trained at lit windows in the hope of detecting a party to bust. "Out of the hallway!" I shouted from the doorway, where I remained for the better part of an hour, nursing a mug of Milwaukee's Best Extra Gold Draft Lite while hordes of first-years, who can smell keg beer from anywhere on campus, tramped up and down the stairwell...
...seemed to have become the politics of gender. On the Republican side, there was a platform borrowed from The Handmaid's Tale and Marilyn Quayle to represent the vanishing female option of career wife. Quayle made it clear just how much was at stake when she dragged in the draft and the sexual | revolution. This was all-out culture war, baby boom-style: feminism vs. antifeminism, repression vs. permission, mixing things up vs. shoring up the walls. Armageddon with a female cast...