I seldom go Ad Hominem: it's no way to win an argument.  

Adventists have a very plain way of reading the bible.  We don't have 'just war' theory, or an unclean meats exemption, or a rationale around the seventh-day Sabbath.  We just believe the bible.  It makes us an odd lot.

You can say, "Male Headship is not a CORE Seventh-day Adventist belief" and even be technically correct.   But you can't get ordaining women as elders out of the bible and our dependence on scriptural authority  is FB#1.

You show me scriptural authority for ordaining women as elders and the argument is over and you have won.

Monte's "...the prohibition of women in the ordained clergy makes the Adventist faith appear to be so out of touch with the contemporary reality in the Western world today as to make it seem irrelevant."  is not persuasive.