That sermon about women having imperfect souls is old medieval (or earlier) rubbish. Apparently the great Augustine of Hippo toyed with the idea that women were only a necessary encumbrance to ensure the continuation of humanity (after dumping his concubine and child without concern). He could not otherwise explain our existence. (What was his relationship with his mother Monica like?) Aquinas felt that because female bodies are obviously incomplete (what would he have argued had he known about the missing part of the male genome) that women are defective. Others wondered if women had souls (as people would later wonder about black slaves). In the gospel of Thomas, Jesus is made to tell the Apostles that Mary Magdalene would be made as a man in heaven.

I feel that there is too much of a trait of men thinking that women are not completely human and then getting to enshrine this in law. Not all men, but enough.

Penny