How does Paganism view the roles of male and female?
Female and male are the two partners in the cosmic Dance of Life. Both are essential to the creation of new life, and neither should be denigrated or subordinate to the other. There can be no Mother without a Father (at least among mammals), and there can be no Father without a Mother (even among gods). Female and male, Goddess and God, Priestess and Priest; partners and consorts, our fate intertwined like the double helix of the DNA molecule. And incidentally, this view of equality between the sexes should not be construed to preclude all-female or all-male working groups, or same-sex lovers. These things too are part of the great Balance, and it is the Balance itself which we honor, holding neither side above or below the other.
