The religious groups that are most loudly committed to "radical inclusion" still maintain ruling hierarchies, access to which is tightly controlled.
Do you think that just anyone who wants to can become a Unitarian Universalist minister? My friend UU RevDoc L would beg to differ. And why don't the Roman Catholic Womenpriests just ordain anyone who asks? (I may be engaging in rash judgment here; from the looks of their antics, maybe they do.). And the Episcopal Church, which now trumpets "equal access for all to all the sacraments" still requires many hoops and trainings and committee approvals, etc. for ordination.
And, of course, the Gonzaga University Jesuits. All male. All Catholic. Dominated utterly by priests and structured in a completely non-democratic hierarchy. You think they elect their superiors, like the Dominicans, or have Jesuit Sisters? Nope. A self-preserving priestly male elite appoints them.
That's the joke about it. Radical inclusivity is an elite-generated ideology.
Orwell was an optimist.
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