Gender Prejudice and Discrimination Flashcards
What is gender prejudice?
Believing that one sex is superior to another based on feelings.
What is gender discrimination?
Treating people differently based on their sex.
What is the Catholic Catechism?
The official teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
What does ordained mean?
Set down by God or to be made a priest.
What is an apostle?
One chosen by Jesus to spread the gospel.
What is the evangelical protestant opinion on gender prejudice and discrimination?
Women shouldn’t be able to speak in church or teach and should submit to their husbands.
Why don’t evangelical protestants see men being more superior as discrimination.
They don’t see it as discrimination since it’s what God ordained.
SOWAA for equality?
‘nor is there male and female’
What is the catholic opinion on gender prejudice and discrimination?
They are against it since men and women are equal.
Why do catholics believe men and women are equal?
The catechism states that men and women are equal and they must follow the catechism.
What can women be if they are catholic? What can’t they be?
They can study, teach and be extraordinary ministers of communion. They can’t be priests or bishops.
Why can’t women be priests or bishops in catholicism?
They believe only men can be ordained priests since the Apostles were men.
What is the liberal protestant opinion in gender prejudice and discrimination?
Men and women should be equal in the family as well as in the church.
What can liberal protestant women be?
Priests, bishops and practically everything.
Why do liberal protestants believe men and women are equal?
Genesis 1 story.
Some evidence of women bishops/priests in the early church.
