As humans we anthropomorphize God. It's the only way we can get our minds around God. Both versions (male and female views) are inadequate reflections of God, who transcends anything we can conceptualize or imagine. In Jewish tradition, to say that God is only male and not female is blasphemy because it is limiting God.
Jesus was male because in the culture he lived in, he could do nothing as female. Whatever other reasons theologians might have hypothesized or discovered for Jesus being a male, the fact remains that he HAD to be a male to do anything in his time and culture. Remember, theology, religion, etc., has been taught and propagated by men only (and even recently, still primarily) in a patriarchal culture for centuries.
And I firmly believe not only should we not judge, but we accomplish nothing (only harm) by judging. People are where they are, and the only thing that changes them is life. Often we may think we are judging by a higher authority - the church's or God's laws - but the church is fallible human institution (whatever Percy's opinion on the matter was), and who has infallible insight into the mind of God?
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