Word: ordain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Conservative seminary votes to ordain women rabbis...
...make offerings to the false idol Nielsen, which is an hungry beast. Give us but a sign, a word, a story idea, that we may please thee and the 2,300 houses of the children of Nielsen." And then the Lord God spoke unto them: "To you, CBS, I ordain that you shall tell of the holy mission of my messengers Peter and Paul. And to you, ABC, I say that you shall relate the story of my brave people at the Battle of Masada." And the third elder, the Pharisee of NBC, asked: "What about me, Lord...
...your interview with Mr. Reagan, he says that "the Federal Government was created by the states." The Constitution does not proclaim "We the states," but, "We the People of the United States . . . do ordain and establish this Constitution." While the Reagan thesis had its supporters in the early Republic, the question is generally presumed to have been settled at Appomattox...
...wife and the Pope would not let him. Now, nearly 1,000 former Episcopalians, breakaways from the American branch of Anglicanism, have won permission to sign up with Rome again, and under special conditions. They had broken with the U.S. Episcopal Church, mainly over its recent decision to ordain women priests. Among the dissident Episcopalians were 65 ministers, many of them married. But how could they become Roman Catholic priests in the U.S. and still stay married...
That would have been that, except for one detail. The certification of new Conservative rabbis is handled in the U.S. by the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. The seminary faculty has grave doubts about whether to ordain women as rabbis. Not, as it happens, for religious reasons, but because they feel that fierce opposition by faculty traditionalists would divide and hence weaken the seminary. The faculty senate last December therefore decided to table action on the matter indefinitely...