text: No, it doesn't show a lack of understanding.  It shows an understanding that the Church will stick to a women being less than equal but "we'll put you on a pedestal to make you not realize this" attitude and it isn't good enough.  Either we are equal under Christ (our Church IS Christian isn't it) or we are not.  The earth is flat - or it's not.  Disease is caused by a sin we committed or it's not.  So many things people used to believe we now know are wrong and this one is being clung to just as the birth control is but that doesn't make them right and it never will.  In the meantime, the young people (and the old but the young are the future) find it unacceptable, unbelievable and plain ludicrous and leave.