Castrati - another Christian crime no one talks about

[Pooka Fey]

57. Um I'm going to have to call bullshit. Sorry to be not be able to be "nice" about it.

Medieval monasteries for women had choirs, so you're wrong about the Church not allowing women to sing in the mass.

As for mixed voice choirs, I don't want to go searching for historical sources, but I'm not making outrageous claims about music history, and I hold a Master's in Music from ASU.

Published Italian Madrigals from 1556 were written for mixed (male and female) voices because the texts required it, this does not exclude mixed choirs from earlier periods - there were surely unpublished madrigals using female singers.

Boys choirs are a delight, and as a female singer since childhood, personally I adore hearing boys choirs. They have a particular timbre which is vocally very pure. The fact that boy's choirs exist does not damn the Church or Western Church composers as misogynists.

Catholic churches in the USA today do not discriminate against girls or females in their choirs.

If you think that today's Christian churches don't recognize the humanity of women, you're wrong.

If you want to argue that there is no difference between the West and Islam, don't be ridiculously wrong about historical facts to the point where I have to shame and ridicule you because stoopid like yours must be pulled up from the roots and destroyed.

Unless of course you can link to responsible academic sources to back up your claims that women never been allowed to sing in church.