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Doesn't answer why you left Protestantism, but fair enough.
Because in the Orthodox Church I never have to worry about us capitulating to the world on issues like gay marriage, female sacramental presbyters and bishops*, abortion or other issues, or for that matter adopting praise and worship music.
*I don’t inherently object to female ministers in denominations where the priesthood is not a sacrament and where they already exist, but in the Orthodox Church, where Holy Orders are a sacrament, in our liturgy the presence of a female presbyter or bishop would be totally inappropriate. It would be even more inappropriate because of the special role presbyteras (the wives of presbyters) already have in our church.
Conversely I could not object to having deaconesses to assist in the baptism of women as the ancient canons clearly allow celibate women aged 60 and older to perform that ministry, if needed, which I find interesting because deacons assist with the Eucharist, and an Orthodox article called them “ministers of the chalice” and it sounds like the Deaconess of antiquity was a minister of the font.
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