Thank you for the additional explanation. Much of the creed stuff exists in fine points that are hard for me to see, or hard for me to understand. I know the Baylys have posted on their blog about a controversy regarding submission in the Trinity that I haven’t wholly grasped.
And yes, I certainly use female pastors as a touchstone myself. I just turned down an Easter service invitation to a church whose web site showed a female “family pastor” and that listed a married couple (male/female, God have mercy on us) as “founding pastors.”
It’s easy to sort out a church’s position on female leadership from their web site. I don’t think I’ve ever learned anything about a church from its boilerplate doctrinal statement.