I consider myself a traditional, old prayer book Episcopalian. I accept women as priests in the same way as I accept Queen Elizabeth as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England. However, I wish that more of the women priests would be predisposed toward the traditional rites and put aside political ideology when preaching.
I am not so pessimistic as to assume that women priests can't follow the true Anglican way. Assuming we are not going back to an all male priesthood in the Anglican faith, the solution as I see it is to foster traditionalism among the next generation of priests (both male and female).
There's nothing inherently "male" about being a monarch -- it's not in the job description, at least not since the battle of Dettingen.
But "being a priest" and standing in Christ's place at the altar requires a man. Otherwise the liturgy and the theology get mixed up.
And I will tell you frankly that there is NO WAY you are going to get many women priests "predisposed toward the traditional rites." That's mutually exclusive as a matter of philosophy AND what the liberals call "theology". The liberal thinking that puts women into an inappropriate role in the first place necessarily and completely rejects the traditional rites as patriarchal, oppressive, and sexist.
The same people who push women for the priesthood push prayerbook revision, "alternative" Eucharists, enneagrams, and all that other anti-traditional rot. As I told a Catholic friend who expressed admiration for a particular female ECUSA priest (he was toying with the idea of a female priesthood until I filled him in on the fact that she led the ECUSA contingent in the national March for Abortion), "it's a package deal."
I wish that more of the women priests would be predisposed toward the traditional rites and put aside political ideology...
I agree with you wholeheartedly, and would simply add that I wish the more of the male priests would also be predisposed toward the traditional rites and put aside political ideology.