No one said that talents should not be used. That is the false understanding of modernity that makes over 1900 years of faith to be blundering by the Holy Spirit, Who couldn't get across to His followers that anyone ought to be a priest because the Church is really about fairness and equality - it takes those ideas and makes them into blind little Oyarsas, the ruling principles of faith.
Equal rights is something foreign to Christianity on a spiritual level. Christ's story about the workmen who worked different hours and received the same wage was all about God's unfairness. Or as Lewis put it in "The Great Divorce", we don't want our rights. We want the Bleeding Mercy.
The Church (if you should find it) is not a secular, worldly organization where we should seek "our rights" but a heavenly organization where we should abandon all thoughts of our "rights" and ask what God would have us do, rather than what we would have ourselves do.
Again, you gain true spirituality by finding the Church and conforming your will to God's will, instead of trying to conform His will to yours.
Not a faith that makes you feel comfortable, or good about yourself, but one that reveals the Truth, even the parts that you don't like.
A great article by former uber-feminist, now Orthodox 'matushka' Frederica Mathewes-Green on the topic:
http://www.frederica.com/writings/women ... ation.html
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
Bill "The Blizzard" Hingest - That Hideous Strength