When all five - cows, brāhmanas, women, children and old people - are taken together as important, that is called human. If you just take one of them and make an issue out of that, that is a mundane social-political position, that's all.

What we are discussing here doesn't change the position or authority of GBC. This gives them the authority that they are supposed to have, that is given by the sampradāya, as well as it gives to the presidents their authority.