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First gay man to be ordained in Presbyterian Church USA since historic vote
Star Tribune ^ | September 25 2011 | Rose French

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Mainline Protestant
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1 posted on 09/26/2011 3:36:42 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Alex Murphy

ping to you


2 posted on 09/26/2011 3:37:21 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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To: Cronos
Name change to the "Lez-bi-queerian Church" soon to follow.
3 posted on 09/26/2011 3:44:27 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Cronos

Because we know its all about him.


4 posted on 09/26/2011 3:49:19 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Cronos

Give us that feel good religion, give us that feel good religion. ;-)


5 posted on 09/26/2011 3:49:46 AM PDT by Average Al (Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
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To: Cronos
Ironically the ordination will occur on the day that Yom Kippur begins!(October 7)

The name "Yom Kippur" means "Day of Atonement." It is a day set aside to "afflict the soul," to atone for the sins of the past year. On Yom Kippur, the judgment entered in these books is sealed. This day is, essentially, your last appeal, your last chance to change the judgment, to demonstrate your repentance and make amends.

They'll show all those evil nasty bible thumpers!!

6 posted on 09/26/2011 3:51:41 AM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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To: Cronos

Gay man + ordained = oxymoron


7 posted on 09/26/2011 3:53:21 AM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: PBRSTREETGANG; Cronos
This particular bunch of "used to be Presbyterians" made themselves irrelevant long before this latest act.

Very interesting that it was the St. Paul MN crowd that pushed them over the top, or the bottom as the case may be. Undoubtedly too many congregations had too many former, but still just as Leftwingtard, ELCA members trying to do an ethnic bounce from staid, stable, dull Scanderhoovian forms into wild, vibrant redheaded nastiness or something.

Frankly I think they are all quite misguided.

8 posted on 09/26/2011 3:53:55 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Cronos
“It’s hard to believe it’s finally happening,” Anderson said.

I agree. It's definitely hard for me to believe a “Christian” church would bring God's judgment on itself by ordaining homosexuals. So, Christians for millenia have been completely wrong about sodomy, women giving up natural relations for other women, etc.? We've all misinterpreted the Bible, and this so-called church has it figured out right? All those scriptures about selecting only the best of the best for church leadership? More nonsense, right?

GAH!

More seriously, I would hate to be the members of this so-called Christian church at the final judgment. May God have mercy on their souls! Seriously! If they only knew what was coming, they would never risk so much for so little.

9 posted on 09/26/2011 4:06:08 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (What's special about bad? Bad is easy. Anyone can do bad. I prefer good!)
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To: Cronos

It’s times like this when members have a choice to make. Do they love God more than their traditions.


10 posted on 09/26/2011 4:20:53 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: freedomfiter2

Actually, it’s caused because they abandoned tradition which said “God says marriage is between a man and a woman”


11 posted on 09/26/2011 4:25:36 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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To: CitizenUSA
. So, Christians for millenia have been completely wrong about sodomy, women giving up natural relations for other women, etc.? We've all misinterpreted the Bible, and this so-called church has it figured out right?

Well, this is to be expected, right? If it all comes down to their flawed interpretations, they can personally interpret anything they want in God's Word.

12 posted on 09/26/2011 4:27:51 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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To: Cronos

It happened because we were silent when we allowed dress down Friday in our schools, wayyyy back in the sixties.


13 posted on 09/26/2011 4:28:03 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: knarf
are you serious?

Though I do admit that my beliefs are that all of this is related to the ease of divorce and the acceptance, nay promotion of "shacking up" since the 1960s

14 posted on 09/26/2011 4:48:28 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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To: Cronos
First gay homosexual man to be ordained in Presbyterian Church USA since historic vote

If they're so damn proud of being sexual perverts, then use the correct term.

15 posted on 09/26/2011 4:56:23 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: Cronos

You can call yourself a Church but the day you go against God’s Word and except sin instead of seeking to redeem the sinner you are no longer a Church of God.............


16 posted on 09/26/2011 5:00:29 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: freedomfiter2
Do they love God more than their traditions.

Ordaining homosexuals isn't a "tradition" anywhere except Sodom and Gomorrah. The word "tradition" comes from the Latin traditio, "to hand over". This isn't the faith that was "handed over" to them. If the PCUSA had any regard for tradition, they wouldn't have been able to imagine anything like this, because their ancestors in the faith sure didn't.

17 posted on 09/26/2011 5:10:26 AM PDT by Campion ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions." -- GKC)
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To: Cronos

If he gives a speech/sermon that “many married Presbyterian ministers are tempted toward adultery but defer to God’s Will and His Word. Similarly, I am tempted in other directions. So long as we all recognize that the Bible is the final authority, merely having these temptations is not a barrier to serving God,” I’m happy with him. If, like so many gay activists, he thinks that having carnal desires gives him the right to revise scripture and overrule God, then he has no business in the pulpit.


18 posted on 09/26/2011 5:42:49 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Pollster1

I am sure he is a virgin, and has no sexual partners, and isn’t engaged in any adulterous liaisons.

Are you kidding?


19 posted on 09/26/2011 6:27:43 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: laweeks
I kind of prefer to call them perverts.

Just recently I've realized that I made a mistake thinking earlier "ok, let them have civil unions" -- give the pervs an inch and they try to make the world change to their perversion.

Now I say ban this perversion just as we imprison rap ists etc.

20 posted on 09/26/2011 7:00:02 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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