text: For the whole of history, Christianity has taken for granted the bible and the natural order subordinated woman to man. "But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God."  1 Cor. 11:3 and all the other scriptures.
  
  Professor Knight surely knows the Adventist church was run by its Elders and they were exclusively male.  That is the history.  When we first allowed women to be ordained as local elders in the seventies (recent history) it was at first conditional.  Every time the GC in session votes on theWO issue it votes it down. The GC in session probably would have voted down local women elders if they had asked in 1975.  
  
  Opponents of WO are not benighted bigots exercising 'kingly power.'  We are holding onto the past because we think the past practice of the church was biblically correct.  Women ought not be ordained as elders in the Seventh-day Adventist church.