Women's ordination and an inclusive or exclusive communion

As I write this the Council is making its way through policy reference reports, having finally finished with section reports. The debate is fairly lively - or should that more honestly be that alot of people are talking - and we've just come through quite a complex backwards and forwards about women's ordination and subsequently about peace and reconciliation.

Should the ordination of women be a condition for membership in the communion? How should WCRC working towards women's ordination be phrased? How do member churches who do not ordain women receive such injunctions, recommendations or ideas?

Robina Winbush from the Presbyterian Church USA agreed to removing the word condition but pointed to the WCRC being a communion and no longer simply an alliance. "A communion with full table and altar fellowship" is what the constitution says, Winbush then asked, so does that full communion only apply to men who are ordained? While agreeing to tone down the injunction she also asked for recognition of the pain this caused to women who are ordained was needed.
Describing herself as a feminist, Cheryl Meban, from the Presbyterian Church of Ireland - a Church which she described as continuing to have some problems with women's ordination - made a plea for not having exclusive wording on this issue. "I plea not to exclude those with whom we disagree but to remain in communion, communion is a slow process, we need to include."

It's an interesting dynamic in unity when those who are excluded plead for the inclusion of those who potentially exclude them.