When commoners were encouraged to Bible study and interpret God's word during the Reformation, women also became engaged in the public debate. However, women's preaching or publishing material stood in direct opposition to the words ascribed to St. Paul (1 Timothy 2: 11-15) which ordered women not to teach or preach, so that all women who published felt it necessary to justify their actions. The only exception was the Anabaptist religion, where women could preach in church. Because Elizabeth I of England was a woman, Parliament decided to make her the "Supreme Governor of the Church of England" instead of the "Supreme Head of the Church of England". The Elizabethan Religious Settlement she played a role in cultivating developed into the Protestant Church of England that exists today.