Church Alone Decides Who Are Ministers

I have been waiting with great interest to hear the outcome of this case of Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC in the USA. “Cheryl Perich, a teacher, argued that the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School of Redford, Mich., had discriminated against her under the Americans With Disabilities Act.” Had she won there may have been a real possibility that it could have created an argument for the state to dictate to the Catholic Church that it should ordain women as priests.

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