You will make this country completely secular with a knitted kippa. Why do you not write an equivalent law for the committee to appoint judges? In your way, you won't be here in another generation, only we will remain here. You want to destroy the religion... The intent in the proposal is to uproot the system. You are starting the downfall of the State as a Jewish State.

  -- MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ), in the meeting of the Knesset Committee for Legislation, as it passed the initial reading of the law to appoint 4 women to the panel for the selection of dayanim. MK Shuli Moalem (Habayit Hayehudi) was the proponent of the law. Rav Shlomo Dichovsky, director of the rabbinical courts, did not oppose the proposal.

While I understand opposition to things like allowing egalitarian minyanim at the Kotel, even if I think the opposition is wrong, I am not sure why having women on the committee to appoint dayanim is anti-religion.