This is just politics, and it isn't surprising, nor all that disappointing to me.
America is too conservative for too many changes at once, especially considering this particular institution.
Give it time. Let's do the marriage thing first.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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