And no religious denomination should be forced to ordain gays or women as priests, right?
The letter also ordered her to “take down www.ordainwomen.org and disassociat[e] yourself from ordain Women.”
Kate Kelly, the leader of ordain Women, was officially excommunicated.
The ordain Women website posted some of Harrison's email to Kelly informing her of her excommunication.
Among other things, Weiss had the beautiful chutzpah to ordain Orthodox women.
And tell me,” added Alcibiades, “do they ordain to do what is good, or what is ill?
She no longer had any question for that which he chose to ordain.
You are their judges—pronounce, then, their fate; do you ordain them to live?
My heart submitted to whatever it should please God to ordain.
They were forbidden to ordain their own priests or practise their own peculiar customs.
late 13c., "to appoint or admit to the ministry of the Church," from stem of Old French ordener "place in order, arrange, prepare; consecrate, designate" (Modern French ordonner) and directly from Latin ordinare "put in order, arrange, dispose, appoint," from ordo (genitive ordinis) "order" (see order (n.)). The notion is "to confer holy orders upon." Meaning "to decree, enact" is from c.1300; sense of "to set (something) that will continue in a certain order" is from early 14c. Related: Ordained; ordaining.
