AP: “Ordaining” the women, the statement said, constituted `”a serious attack on the unity of the church” and was “an affront to the dignity of women, whose specific role in the Church is distinctive and irreplaceable.”
Are they talking about making babies? The press release doesn’t say.
I can imagine a few diehards in Congress saying during the women’s suffrage movement: “Giving women the right to vote is a serious attack on the unity of America and is an affront to the dignity of women, whose specific role in the Republic is distinctive and irreplaceable.”