What qualifies as discrimination?

[Booko]

Discrimination is so often used in the derogatory in our culture we`ve lost sight of it`s real meaning.

Discrimination is usually equated with oppression, which is not accurate.

 

[Katzpur]

By this logic if you could manage to convince a group of people that they should be slaves, that slavery is the best possible situation for them, then slavery would then be moral. And I cannot accept that. And I know this is not what you are suggesting, but just wanted to point out that just because a group of people feel something is fair, does not necessarily mean that it is. And that is really all I wanted to say.

And I understand what you are saying. On the other hand, what makes something "fair"? Is something "unfair" because you or someone else thinks it is? Or is "fair" in the mind of the beholder?

On the actual issue of women as priests I want to say that I don’t believe in discrimination on the basis of gender. I try hard not to discriminate on such a basis, and I would not belong to any organisation that did. But of course no one needs to belong to the Church of LDS, nor does anyone have a right to be a priest in the LDS. Any woman in LDS who wishes to be a priest is free to do so. She simply needs to quit and join a different kind of church that allows it, or start her own.

You're right. And this is why I am totally fine with the idea of women priests in religions other than my own. It really would be pretty unusual for any LDS woman who truly understands the nature of the Priesthood in terms of LDS theology to feel as if she is being unfairly treated or discriminated against because she is not permitted to hold the priesthood. From our perspective, it's not an issue of worthiness or capability. If it were, I would definitely feel slighted.