Cheryl Schatz

Susanna,
You said:

As far as governing authorities are concerned: they were given by God BECAUSE OF SIN (Rom 13) to punish evild-doers and give praise to the one’s who do good. There can be no comparison between an authority which is given at creation and one which is instituted because of sin, unless we of course agree with the early church and say that the man’s authority was given because the woman ruined it all by introducing sin, while the man was innocent.

Excellent thought! The issue is indeed what God created at the beginning and unless complementarians can explain where God instituted an authority of Adam over Eve in the beginning and why He did so when He created them equal rulers, their views of authority imported into marriage can only be seen as worldly not God-given.