text: That's pretty much the same argument neoscholastics posit to deny the possibility of women's ordination.
  
  The argument goes that Jesus was biologically male, and a priest acts in persona Christi when confecting sacraments, so only a male can be a priest.
  
  I'm more inclined to St Paul's reasoning: "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (NIV translation.)
  
  Your arguments are based on a reductionist view of biological appendages. St Paul's are based on something much higher ... we humans, after all, are something much more than mere biological machines. We are in the Imago Dei ... whether biologically male or female or intersex, whether straight or gay or any shade in between.
  
  And the higher good is the flourishing both of individual humans and of the collective. Love is the higher good. Loving gay couples do not need to be limited by a proscriptive neoscholastic frame of reference.