Pretend Priesting in Pittsburg

From AP:
Twelve women from throughout the United States lie prostate before the altar while participating in a ceremony Monday, July 31, 2006, in which eight will proclaim themselves priests and four deacons in Pittsburgh. The ceremony won't be recognized by the Catholic church, which has a 2,000-year tradition of an all-male priesthood. Similar ceremonies conducted by the group Roman Catholic Womenpriests have been held before in other countries, and most of the participants have been excommunicated. It's the first time the group is holding a ceremony in the U.S. The ceremony took place on a riverboat cruise of the three rivers in Pittsburgh.

I feel a song coming on.

Left a good church in the city,
Listenin’ to a man every Sunday Morn.
‘Cause I never found it just or fair men
Get to be the priests just ‘cause the way they was born.

Heretics keep on tryin’,
Virgin Mary keeps on cryin’.
Ordainin’, ordainin’, womyn on the river.

Tried to change the Church with protests,
Holdin’ up banners and a-singin’ my hopes.
But I never saw the backside of the altar
Till I hitched a ride with a riverboat Pope.

Heretics keep on tryin’,
Virgin Mary keeps on cryin’.
Ordainin’, ordainin’, womyn on the river.

If you come down to the river
You can genuflect while I’m sayin’ the Mass.
Jesus may not show up; you may wanna throw up;
I don't give a dam because I’m havin’ a gas.

Heretics keep on tryin’,
Virgin Mary keeps on cryin’.
Ordainin’, ordainin’, womyn on the river.

My apologies to Creedence Clearwater revival. By the way, the original text really does read that the women lie prostate, not prostrate. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them had prostates, but I assume that’s a slip of the keyboard.