Georgia, I feel obligated to comment. I don't get what the gender of God has to do with leadership.  I do understand how tolerance and emotional intelligence are related to leadership and how both can make me a better leader.  Imbalance in either, as well as imbalance in a number of other areas, can also make me ineffective as a leader.

And I can understand how someone might believe that I'm incapable of separating my belief about God from my ability to treat people fairly. I'm a pretty conservative Christian. However, I don't agree with what you've said above about the Christian faith as it pertains to me. I can't speak for generations of Christians. I can't speak about what the ancients believed when they wrote the Bible.  I can speak about what I believe and about how that belief has changed my life.  I believe the truth of it because of the change it has made in my life; not because I'm unable or lack intelligence.

So I just want to get it on the record that I'm not so sure you've convinced me of the gender of God or that my belief about God makes me less of a leader.  Hope you understand.