The statements from the CUC the PUC and more recently, the Southern Pacific Division are commendable.

They are creatively crafted and elegantly egalitarian, but that these pronouncements about gender equality are even necessary in our modern westernized world is SURREAL.

We appear ridiculous when we are forced to pathetically proclaim what should be self evident:  
both male and female church memhers are equal in God's sight, equally endowed with talents, and as Christians, equally called upon to proclaim the Gospel