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I suppose it would be unlikely that there are any men in that Church who would stand against such blatant flouting of the Standards, the BCO, and of course, the Word of God. Sorrow mounts upon sorrow. Are there any here that are members of that Presbytery that have the courage to bring charges? Of any Presbytery?
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The vast majority of humans always follow the path of least resistance. I complained to our church about ordaining Baptists and Arminians and the two members of the Session had a hissy fit, and when I wouldn't back down things got ugly. About a third of the church supported me, but nobody was willing to do anything except...well, almost nothing. Things like "It will get better" and "I'm a firm believer in slow change".
If you file a complaint in the PCA you'll almost certainly win, and in a case like a woman Deacon laying on hands during an Elder's ordination ceremony you could force the Session to do something like enter into the Session's minutes that they'd made a mistake. But then you'd have to live with how the leadership would treat you.
And BTW by the time a church gets that bad, the men who are willing to take a stand have pretty much all left anyway.