text: Whoa,
  
  I think 'coercive' is getting makeover.  Isn't the WO movement intent on coercing change and imposing the 'end of gender discrimination' on any operating unit of the church where they can muster the majority?  What respect can the dissenting members within the progressive Union Conferences expect if and when the proponents of WO prevail?
  
  And about the author 'siding with the TOSC' - come now! There was quite a bit a 'diversity' of opinion as I recall within the TOSC.  What did they decide?  Was it unanimous?  I'd say the author wants to expunge the TOSC's significant minority opinion that did not think there was a biblical basis to end 'gender discrimination.'
  
  Adventists are diverse because we are organized similarly to the Roman Catholics.  Like them, we have a lot of top-down control.  Like the R Catholics, that leads to diversity within.  If you want real diversity, start your own church. Make your own dogma. Be as different as you like. Be your own police.