Posted on 09/26/2011 3:36:35 AM PDT by Cronos
A Wisconsin man is expected to become the first openly gay candidate ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) since the church opened ordination to gay candidates earlier this year.
...“It’s hard to believe it’s finally happening,” Anderson said in a released statement on Friday. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) officially began allowing the ordination of openly gay and lesbian candidates on July 10.
n May, Twin Cities Presbyterians cast the historic vote to allow openly gay and lesbian members to be ordained ministers. Presbyterian leaders say the Twin Cities vote was the action needed to end the 2.1 million-member denomination’s national ban on gay clergy.
The denomination, based in Louisville, Ky., is the latest mainline Protestant group to move toward accepting same-gender relationships.
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When you build an edifice on sand, the entire structure will eventually crumble. The failure of the Presbyterian Church only mirrors or copies the failure of all the other products of the Reformation.
True, and thanks to Alex’s posts and threads which are pure fiction or half-truths badly put together, we learn how laughably desperate they are now.
Maybe he thinks he is eventually going to trick a billion Catholics into simultaneously crossing the Tiber, like the start of some gigantic triathlon, to the OPC using a Reformed version of the Jedi Mind Trick.
Nah, next to no people are gaylords — unlike the Presbyterians here.
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