Bro. Abbott, gender equality is rooted in the Bible, not "isms." Genesis makes it clear that the woman is created as the man's equal. She is created from a rib, not a foot. She is defined at creation by God as a companion, not a servant. The submission language comes into the story many generations later, from human culture, not the words of the Creator. Paul's reference to "nature" is post-Fall nature, not God's original created nature. Paul puts the submissive wife in the same passage with his advocacy of slavery. He consistently advocated traditional Roman Empire culture because of his fear that the infant Jesus movement would be destroyed by the heavy hand of the ruling elite. Adventists left those traditionalist ideas behind in its first generation under the spiritual leadership of James and Ellen White. Perhaps they interpreted the Bible wrong, but not due to any "ism."