Former Female Episcopal Priest Links Women’s Ordination to LGBT Activism
by Jules Gomes, Church Militant:
A former Episcopalian female “priest” is warning of the “grave danger” of women’s ordination as it is inextricably linked to homosexual activism, rooted in feminism and perpetuates confusion about gender and the Eucharist.
Ordaining women priests is a revolt against Catholic orders, a rejection of the Fathers’ teaching and a denial of the authority of Scripture, writes Alice Linsley in a hard-hitting essay in the Anglican journal Virtue Online.
Linsley, who served as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the U.S.A. (ECUSA) for 16 years, renounced her orders and quit her denomination “as it moved toward a radical revision of the Gospel, setting aside the apostolic Tradition for its social justice agenda.”
“As with many Anglicans, I believe that the Episcopal Church erred in 1976 when it departed from the all-male priesthood,” observes Linsley, a pioneer in the field of biblical anthropology.
Speaking to Church Militant, the biblical scholar who has spent the last decade reflecting on the problem of women’s ordination, explained how “the priesthood is an ordinance of Christ and is, therefore, perpetual.”
“Those who reject the sign and ordinance, necessarily reject the Faith once delivered. Setting aside this Christology invites grave dangers to the Catholic Church,” she remarked.
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