"beyond vague notions of "equality" and "justice", what is your rationale for the ordination of women? 
 - dennism.

I would make the same rationale for the ordination of women as I would make for the ordination of married men:  That the church's refusal to ordain these two groups denies the People of God the full proclamation of the gospel in all its richness.  That restricting the priest-hood only to celibate men inherently limits its proclamation because the necessarily limited life experience of the church's proclaimers of the gospel.The Church is missing huge swaths of testimony to the richness of the power of the Holy Spirit in the life of the faithful.  It is impoverishing itself in its teaching and proclamation, its institutions,  and it is restricting the pool of its potential workers to a very small pool, which puts most of the people on the sidelines and tasks this pool extraordinantly hard; the institutions and the people are coming apart under the strain.

PR Chris