The church is a Pilgrim People, a people on a journey toward health, wholeness and holiness.  The church cannot be fully healthy, whole or holy while women and married men are excluded from any office or ministry in the church. The laws, arguments and distinctions that exclude them are artificial constructs that are at odds with and undermine the unambiguous teaching of Scripture: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not male and female (there is not clergy or lay); for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Gal. 3:28).  While it would be radically wrong to exclude women and married men from orders even if there were a plethora of celibate men to celebrate the sacraments, it borders on blasphemy to exclude them while large portions of the People of God lack regular access to the Eucharist and sacraments.
It is time, and past time, to open the doors, to break them down.