Thank you for this honest article.  Yes.  Optional Celibacy for married men while we are not ordaining married women equates to Gender Segregation & the subjugation of all women under all men no matter if we fully ordain a billion women to the permanent deaconate tomorrow.  Permanent deacons have no authority, vote, voice or purpose beyond that of the laity in our church.  

The laity need to stand up against this evil attitude of exclusion & treating everything that the world has stereotyped female as less sacred, less intelligent, less deserving of same civil and sacred rights and sacraments now & with ferocity.  This homily reveals a pope who has a real hatred of women as human beings.  We are not a stereotype-we are human beings and are equally man to men.

Work with Women's Ordination Conference to fight this gender segregation!  We must stand against married priests until women are ordained equally priests as a matter of human dignity.  We must also rebuke any ban on gay priests!