Edwina Gateley

To the women of the Northwest gathering in solidarity with Jennifer Sleeman and the women in Ireland -  Ladies - It is time!!   We have served, supported and loved this church of ours all our lives. But we, as women, have never been treated with equality or dignity by our church leadership.  This is contrary to the message of Jesus and to the Gospel.  We can no longer participate in our own diminishment nor support and serve an unjust and sinful institution.  Today we stand in faithful protest and call upon all those in authority in our church to repent the sins of discrimination and inequality -- in the name of Jesus. May God re-build this broken and unfaithful church.