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While there are women bishops, there are also male bishops who are allowed to refuse to ordain women.

The Vatican ban was articulated in a 2005 document from the Congregation for Catholic Education, and later repeated in a subsequent document in 2016, which said the church cannot admit to seminaries or ordain men who “practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called gay culture.”

September 1979 Episcopal Church General Convention approves resolution saying it is “not appropriate for this church to ordain a practicing homosexual or any person who is engaged in heterosexual relations outside of marriage.”

“The power to ‘define a crime and ordain its punishment’ is an exclusively legislative function,” the justices wrote.

But first they would ordain, for a time, as a Buddhist monk and nun.