It still doesn't - nor does it recognize rights for men. Even the 19th Amendment, commonally called "Women's Suffrage Rights", is gender neutral. .But the interpretations of the Constitution have, through most of it's history, been male for male purposes. The 19th was required because the Supreme Court did not hold the 15th to apply to women as voting citizens (don't know the case offhand) and states were joining in that precedent. It has ALWAYS been male interpretation be it Constitutional (until Justice O'Connel took the bench) or Biblical.
I do! (er, ... did) Ah, not in those exact figurative words but in the denying of girls to serve as acolytes and women in the church proper to have heads coverd. No scriptual readings by women. It has only been in my lifetime that changes were made and probably much less than 40 years ago. What was then, is little changed in the minds and policy/dogma of some churches today.
Only by religious practise and willfully ignoring Constitutional provisions. Every church, diocese, or whatever is incorporated under state law. Every corporation must follow Federal social policy as reflected in Constitutional law. Just as a business may not openly deny an executive position because of gender, so too should a religious corporation be held to the same standard. It has absolutely nothing to do with what church authority says is a "proper" calling or what you deem is what is right or wrong for you. It is a principle of American law gloriously ignored by some churches.
Some women have had that calling and the education in seminary to match it. They were denied by the Catholic Church. It is not a matter of faith between her and God but the decision by church authority, contrary to American justice, that kept that woman from being a priest.
It is still a chauvinistic fraternity thet demeans the humanity of women.. That a female will accede to the inferior placement does not justify it.
