text: I agree.  We have set up women to be the main lay ministers by our ordination practices that are wholly sexist & then treat them like they are arrogant because they want a living wage for often full-time work same as their priest.  This is true even though many of these women have college loans to pay off & a family to support while the priest in the parish is viewed as the poor guy who sacrificed everything for the church while he is getting about 35,000 a year salary & all his meals, clothes, housing & maid & cooking services provided for free.   Nothing Christian in that scenario. 
  
  I am not at all worried about clericalizing the laity, as if that could actually happen.  The threat that never was.  We do need to stop clericalizing men in our church over women & we need to end the permanent deaconate because it has proven to be sexist, clericalizing, racist, while attributing to wealth disparity & ethnic disparity in ordained ministry.  We need to replace deacons with lay ministers.