A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.
Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.
We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.