text: Experts are not needed to explain away Paul's reason for not placing women in authority over men.  Paul is quite explicit - it is right there in the text I quoted.  Proof-text indeed!  What is there to whisper about when we can all read it in black and white?
  
  As to the NT pattern, we use our collective imagination and imitate that primitive church even as it tried to imitate Christ. We imitate the catholic church, even as it imitates Christ.  We have to imitate something: what do you propose we imitate?  The current popular ideology of equality?  It isn't biblical.  The scripture is the authority of God in the Seventh-day Adventist church.  Not voting.
  
  I care not how the votes are counted. I will always oppose WO until I am persuaded from the scripture that God Himself ordains it.