It is one thing to make a decision, another for the community to make the decision for you and to say you are only welcome if you do it our way. Modern orthodoxy enables greater choices; fundamentalists are all about control. Feminism is about choice and if your community doesn't give women choices but sets all the rules, I question that.

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