text: First of all, I'm not a liberal. I just resist simplistic thinking from any direction. But thanks so much for judging me. That's always so kind and charitable. But moving on...
  
  The "Jesus never hesitated" tactic cuts both ways. He also never hesitated to lay down the law very clearly about things he considered important. So why then did he never say that women couldn't be priests? If he felt that strongly about it, wouldn't he have made it crystal clear?
  
  In fact, the only thing I can ever recall him saying clearly about the clerical class is that his followers were not to have a paternalistic hierarchy like the Jews of his time (Matt. 23:9.) Sure took that one seriously, didn't we?