Of all the things to worry about women deacons is probably dead last.  Do you not want support for aging priests?  Could a mere woman not baptize a baby, marry a couple?  Maybe even take the collection money to the bank.  Maybe even preach?  What was mary magdalene doing all those years?  What was BVM doing?  What were all those cornish pri cesses doing?  Trace the church back to england, and other places and you will avoid all sorts of a cruel, militaristic romish sungod religion.  We have followed the wrong tracks and need to backtrack..not only to england but certainly include it.  What was the church of joseph of arimathea?  Could there be a better person to get a church going?  Get unbiased historians, archeologists, genealogists etc. and search for the truth, which was twisted and truth carriers burned, killed, documents destroyed...get to the bare naked truth.