And people wonder why the CofE is losing members?

Commenting at the Thinking Anglicans post on the Australian protocol drdanfee wrote:

As USA Fort Worth, Pittsburgh, and San Joaquin (formerly under JDS) plus Sydney help show us, the efforts to give certain conservative believers their conscientious wish - to be carefully, strictly freed from having to deal with women who are foolish enough to think God has called them to ministry, and from any other believers who are foolish enough to discern such women as their bishop - is not a transitional phase during which reception inevitably occurs. Rather, so far what has happened is that conservatives of this type close ranks, put up walls, continue to demeaningly characterize and even on occasion preach a false witness about the motives/person of any woman priest or bishop, and we end up with the planned Balkanization of church life sectors intentionally devoted to keeping certain conservatisms undefiled or pure from the contaminating touches of women outside the limited and subjegated roles certain conservatives assign to women based on narrow readings of scripture. At first glance, the live and let live part of me thought, why not let certain conservative believers avoid women, since they prize it so highly and with such rigor? Then I noted that the uncanny sense of fearful contamination from women that is part and parcel of anti-women theologies necessarily spread to anybody who treats women in some manner other than the divinely ordained subjegation orderings that certain conservative believers sincerely preach. Then I noted that even drawing boundaries and putting up walls was not going to be enough, as any non-properly subjegated woman who managed any success or recognition - is it too much to say that some folks love their women priests or bishops and thank God for their ministries? - continued to be an offense and a target. I understand that such accommodations are meant to be gentle, transitional, and spatious. However much of a certain type of vigorous conservative believer campaigning repeatedly renders them transitions to the fortified, weaponized ghetto zones where men fearful of women cooties claim to follow God by keeping women everywhere of all sorts confined to limited, lesser roles in conservative church life. Many conservative believers would yet again spread this terrible mean-spiritedness to the whole of civilized life, if only they had the power and the means to apply that power to all women.

Exactly. It is simply wrong to treat different people differently on the basis of their gender. That immmorality has a Christian theological basis from which must flow new requirements everyone must live by. It is the conservatives who are trapped by secularism - all be it the secularism of an earlier time.