Question about New Testament

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Thank you, everyone who answered my question. Melody, the point 
wittily made by the comic you linked us to, is the reason I only 
asked about the New Testament. I've heard rumors that the New 
Testament says that Christ freed Christians from "the yoke of the 
Law" (meaning the 613 commandments in Torah and their book after book 
of details). Christians, not being Jews, don't have to stick to 
kosher food, avoid wearing linsey-woolsey, be circumcised, go to the 
mikvah seven days after the end of your period in order to wash off 
the ritual uncleanness so as to be allowed to touch your husband 
(strict Orthodox couples are so careful for the husband and wife 
to avoid touching each other during the half the time she's 
ritually unclean that they don't hand each other anything lest the 
hands touch; the one puts it down on a table for the other to pick 
up; including the baby), don't have to shave your head when you're 
married (to avoid tempting other men into adultery with you) ... 

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "psychic_serpent" 
<psychic_serpent at y...> wrote:
> 
> I believe that I read a quote from Barbara Harris, who was the first 
> female Episcopal Bishop in the US, to the effect that many of the 
> doom-and-gloom predictions that people have been making concerning 
> the future of the church were identical to the predictions people 
> were making concerning what would occur if women were ordained, and 
> then, if women were made bishops.  The actual event--approval of a 
> gay bishop--was not held to be the same as the previous events, but 
> the reaction to it.

I don't doubt it. I wasn't paying attention when the Episcopalians 
admitted women to the priesthood (wasn't that like 20 years ago?) but 
much more recently there was news coverage of the Anglicans in the UK 
admitting women to the priesthood, which outraged some of the 
pre-existing priests so much that they switched to being Roman 
Catholic priests with a special exemption from the Pope so they could 
keep their wives. They had all the same rhetoric about it being clear 
doctrine from Christ himself that females can't be priests, and 
quoted Paul the prolific letter-writer to the effect that women must 
keep silent in church.