Ladies, would you wear a veil at a Protestant church?

[LittleWaySoul]

3 hours ago, Quasar said:

Any story that contains the phrase "rogue bishop" is worth telling.

Haha I don't know many more details than what I said above. Though more may come up if you google "rogue bishop ordains anglicans" or something. 

[beatitude]

On ‎10‎/‎10‎/‎2016 at 8:27 PM, IgnatiusofLoyola said:

Beatitude--I TOLD you to save those sequined hot pantaloons for the privacy of your own home! 

Well, I thought it would be just selfish not to share them with a wider public, and selfishness is a sin.

[Gabriela]

I haven't read any of the other posts in this thread. I haven't even read the OP. I've been avoiding this thread because it seems to me to be a dangerous spin on a modesty topic. But there just occurred to me a way to concisely articulate how I feel about the thread title's question, so I'll post that and get out of here.

Whether I would veil in a Protestant church depends entirely on whether other women are veiling in that Protestant church. You might think this is contradictory, because as a trad, I veil even at Novus Ordo Masses, where other women generally do not veil. But the tradition of the Catholic Church is that women veil, and so whether other women there are veiling or not is irrelevant to me: Historically, the Church has designated veiling as a way of showing reverence to God.

When I was an undie (my affectionate term for undergrad) at Texas A&M, there was a building dedicated to former students who lost their lives in the wars. When men entered that building, they were supposed to uncover their heads to show respect. I was a Jew at Texas A&M and on several occasions I heard Jewish men say how uncomfortable they were walking into that building because people looked askance at them when they didn't remove their kippah. Those Jewish men wore their kippah to show deference to God. So, some men were removing their headgear to show respect, and others were keeping it on to show respect.

My point is: What we do with our heads to show deference is completely and wholly arbitrary. It's nothing more than the expression of a—usually centuries-long—agreement between some cultural group about whether covered or uncovered is the reverent way. So if I were in a Protestant church and other women were showing deference by veiling, I would veil, because that's how one shows respect in that community. And if other women were not veiling, I would not veil, because that's how they show respect in that community. And at a Novus Ordo Mass, I show respect by veiling not because other women are doing it, but because the Church has said for centuries that that is a legitimate way to show reverence to God.

I hope all that's clear. Boiled down: The head covering is meaningless by itself. It's the people who give it meaning.