The arguments against wearing clericals involve — insofar as I understand them — the implied claim that a clergyperson is someone special. ❋ Unknown (2005)
So I would say that just calling someone who is a female clergyperson wouldn't necessarily guarantee that you wouldn't end up with a predator, but I'd hope that you would call a female clergy on their own merits. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Because although when the story airs on the radio it might resemble that to someone who is a clergyperson, what I'm thinking about during the interview is the truth of the person's story; and what is the mechanics of staging it for the radio; and have they filled in this or that point; and what is the opportunity to go further; and finishing this to make a radio show. ❋ Paul Brandeis Raushenbush (2011)
And most problematic, from my perspective, is that the clergyperson, with the stroke of a pen, makes legal a contract that s/he has no ability or potential to end. ❋ Tony Jones (2011)
Further, the clergyperson is potentially at the beck and call of the government in this role. ❋ Tony Jones (2011)
He is a clergyperson in the United Church of Christ, the former Mayor of Atlanta, the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, and worked as an aide to The Rev.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the civil rights struggle. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Yes, but the clergyperson has the right to refuse to officiate. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And any rabbi, any clergyman, clergyperson, has to be keenly aware of that bright line between what they do for a living and who they are. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When I talk to pastors and priests about this, almost all of them express extreme discomfort at this situation, for it actually requires the clergyperson to act as an extension of the state. ❋ Tony Jones (2011)
ED: Well, my question is for congregations that are searching for a new clergyperson, they have search committees or things like that, couldn't it be a way to avoid the heartache of clergy power abuse to call a female clergyman? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Nevertheless, King's presence marks the first non-presidential, private citizen and clergyperson to be honored on our nation's most hallowed grounds. ❋ Andrew Wilkes (2011)
For days after, I was haunted by the fact that as a clergyperson I had not turned back to help immediately after the towers had fallen. ❋ Rabbi Michael M. Cohen (2011)
A clergyperson can enter into places where other people have to be invited. ❋ Unknown (2010)
