The Age.AU: Jimmy Carter, Losing my religion for equality.

I am also familiar with vivid descriptions in the same Scriptures in which women are revered as pre-eminent leaders. During the years of the early Christian church women served as deacons, priests, bishops, apostles, teachers and prophets. It wasn't until the fourth century that dominant Christian leaders, all men, twisted and distorted Holy Scriptures to perpetuate their ascendant positions within the religious hierarchy.

The man knows his history. I've mentioned The Closing of the Western Mind before. Recommended. 'Tis on Amazon.