Any church that exercises principles of what used to be called "strict watch care" is going to be antithetical to modern American notions of freedom.
You would probably be horrified at the lot of women in a small rural Alabama Baptist congregation circa 1840 . . . my gg grandfather was a deacon in one. I've read all the minutes.
Welcome to the nineteenth century.
I was reading about how the Amish from one area will trade young men, say a couple of dozen, with an Amish group from another area just to help solve this problem. Does that really happen?