Religion and Community Cohesion

Reasons NOT to accept women as church leaders:

• The Bible says women should obey their husbands
• The Bible says women should be silent in church
• All of Jesus' disciples were men
• Jesus left the Church in the care of St Peter- a man
• In the past, women were regarded as inferior because of Adam and Eve (Eve was sinful)

Reasons to ACCEPT women as church leaders:

• The Bible says God created men and women in His own image
• Jesus didn't discriminate between men and women; he talked to and taught both
• Jesus treated women followers well and it was them that stayed by His cross and the first to see Him after ressurection
• There is evidence of women leaders in the early Church
• The Golden Rule suggests that everyone should be respected