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Thus left jobless, Schiess has just marked the anniversary of her ordination by filing complaints with the New York State Division of Human Rights and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The complaints, which add a new dimension to the ongoing dispute, charge Bishop Cole with discriminating against her because of her sex. Schiess's suits contend that the secular laws permitting a church to practice discrimination in employment are meant to exclude only persons who do not share its beliefs. The ban on women as priests, which stems from centuries of tradition, is not a belief, she argues...
...year after her disputed ordination to the Episcopal priesthood as one of the "Philadelphia Eleven" (TIME, Aug. 12, 1974), Betty Bone Schiess, 52, finally celebrated the Eucharist publicly for the first time.* But she still had no church assignment. Like her colleagues, she had previously been ordained as a deacon, the highest Episcopal Church office open to women. After the Philadelphia ordination, the vestry of a Syracuse parish offered her the position of associate priest. Schiess resigned her job as director of a senior citizens' center, but was then denied a license for the parish post by Bishop...
...Until Schiess filed the complaints, the dispute had stayed within the Episcopal Church, where it caused profound divisions of opinion. Bishops met in emergency session over the issue, and two priests who let women celebrate Communion were convicted by ecclesiastical tribunals. Some priests threaten to bolt the church if women priests are permitted, while one bishop has vowed to resign his office if they are not. Most Episcopalians hope to muddle through and let the 1976 General Convention decide the question...
...Schiess's decision to accuse her bishop of sex discrimination through secular channels is likely to do the women's cause little good within the church, and it could well create a backlash. Many delegates to next year's convention, like St. Paul in / Corinthians 6:1, may take a dim view of filing a suit against a Christian "brother...
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