I'm with Tom here and I'll go a step or two further:

Macho American men treating their wives as baby machines who cook supper, do the wash and tend to any other of his needs as he sees fit ARE to blame. Not only has it led to the horror of abortion--which I had never considered but agree with as well, it has led to the insidious practice of women in the pulpit.

Now lets not have anyone twist off here, please, because there are places for everyone to minister in the church. But the idea that everyone is the same, male or female and exactly the same has continued to blur the boundries God has set for each gender. Whats worse, kids are soaked in this day by day from the media and it school--even in the church. Finally this blurring has led another horrifying step down the wide road. If women are just as good as men, even preaching the gospel in the pulpit, why does sexual orientation have anything to do with it at all? A continued rationalization has led certain churches to embrace the heresy of homosexual ministers.

Homosexuality seems to be a hotbutton issue these days, but I think all this is interconnected.

Josh
"...the word of God is not bound."--2 Timothy 2:9