What was the most fundamental threat to the Puritan social order?

[Mortimer]

Theocracy WAS the Puritan social order! I'd say A. History shows that the former Puritan stronghold of New England became the most Liberal part of the country as they drifted away from Puritan religion. It seems they understood the threat as well-- that's why they banished or killed Ann Hutchinson and Mary Dyer and hung Quakers. I would not characterize either of the two women mentioned as primarily feminist since their nonconformity was mostly theological.