Fundamentalists desire to rule over women - in the Southern Baptist Convention, in the church, and in the home. Yet their drive to dominate does not end with women. It extends to God. By excluding women from ministry, they attempt to restrict God's ability to call whomever God chooses. This is their gravest sin.
Idolatry is much more serious than sexism.
Clearly, Biblical passages can be cited to support male domination. The Bible, both Old and New Testaments, was written in the context of a highly patriarchal culture in which women were little more than the property of their nearest male relative. Unless it is read with faith in Christ, the Word of God can become the Word of Satan. I invite fundamentalists to quit waving their Bibles around the pulpit as a stage prop and to open them up and read them. I invite them to read, not isolated passages, but the whole book, from cover to cover.