And I Mean All the Furniture

“This is why the question of women’s ordination is emphatically not about a simple matter of including women in Christian ministry. It is not a simple matter of rearranging the furniture. This is about redefining the nature of Christian ministry, in order to make it compatible with another religion entirely. And this is why, once women’s ordination is accomplished, within a generation we see that completely different religion park its moving van outside, and they start unloading all the furniture” (Why Ministers Must Be Men, 47).