text: This is a terrible statement Wills.  It is anti-christian to state that it is acceptable to continue hatred of women and the oppression of women because some may leave if we act with justice.  Sexism does incredible harm to women and your apology won't cure that harm.  Justice must be swift or more injustice occurs.  The permanent deaconate is nonsense - it contains no more authority than lay people already have.  
  
  Schism has already occurred and we are continuing to lose women faster than protestant churches are because of our sexism.  We cannot ordain married men to priesthood if we are not ordaining women priest as this would cause outright gender segregation which is a form of oppression greater than women have ever known in our church.  This leaves anyone who stands for justice fighting those who want married men ordained because they don't want to wait so you have civil war within our church and the laity left feeling torn and leaving to find churches that have less conflict.