The role of women in leadership continues to trigger heated debates within the Presbyterian Church in America, which currently forbids women from holding positions of authority over men.
This week during the 37th General Assembly in Orlando, Fla., church leaders voted 446-427 against appointing a study committee to examine women's roles in the denomination.
The vote on Thursday was in agreement with the Overtures Committee's argument that the role of women is not an unstudied issue and that forming a study committee is unlikely to "break new ground or shed new insights."...
