text: "When civility disappeared, there was no holding back the floodtide of hate speech and assaults on those who could not control or alter what made them easy targets: the color of their skin, their accents, the faith they profess."  ---  The fact they were born female?  Did we forget one?
  
  I love how NCR and many prominent Catholics seem to very often forget sexism is as bad a sin, and as  harmful as racism, and ethnic, and religious discrimination.  I think they don't forget but instead skim over sexism because there is no getting around the fact that we are a sexist church that inspires hatred against women by treating them differently and less than men in our ordination practices and governing practices.  
  
  If we were still buying and selling black people would we just skim over racism too?  Probably.  
  
  We have made the country and church that we have, and it is up to us, the common citizen and lay person, to change both institutions if we want a peaceful and just and godly world.