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U.S. Presbyterian Church Ordains First Gay Minister
Fox News ^ | October 8, 2011

Posted on 10/09/2011 5:55:23 AM PDT by NYer

MILWAUKEE –  A man who left his Presbyterian ministry in California more than 20 years ago after telling his congregation that he is gay was welcomed back into the church leadership on Saturday as its first openly gay ordained minister.

In a quavering voice ripe with emotion, 56-year-old Scott Anderson told the hundreds of friends and backers who packed Covenant Presbyterian Church in Madison, Wisconsin for his ordination ceremony that he never thought the day would come.

"To the thousands of Presbyterians who have worked and prayed for almost 40 years for this day, I give thanks," Anderson said. "And I give thanks for those who disagree with what we're doing today yet who know that we are one in Jesus Christ."

When he was presented to the crowd, audience members gave him a thunderous standing ovation and began roaring with cheers.

"That was very atypical of Presbyterians," Doug Poland, an elder at Covenant Presbyterian Church, told the Wisconsin State Journal. "Usually our hands are in our laps."

Anderson was closeted when he served as a minister in Sacramento, Calif., from 1983 until 1990. When a couple threatened to reveal his sexual orientation, he came out to his congregation and resigned because the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) barred homosexuals from serving as ministers.

But things changed last year when the church's national assembly voted to remove the ban, clearing the way for Anderson's ordination.

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TOPICS: Current Events; Mainline Protestant; Ministry/Outreach
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; lesbyterian; lesbyterianism; paganchurchusa; pcusa; presbyterian
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1 posted on 10/09/2011 5:55:25 AM PDT by NYer
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To: wagglebee; little jeremiah

Ping!


2 posted on 10/09/2011 5:56:24 AM PDT by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
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To: NYer

er umm, he may be the FIRST advertisedly gay minister ordained, but I guarantee he is not ‘the first”

LOL! Our small town presby minister was busted for soliciting gay sex over 50 years ago


3 posted on 10/09/2011 5:57:34 AM PDT by silverleaf (Common sense is not so common - Voltaire)
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To: NYer

Just another play in the communist handbook.
Destroy everything.
Replace it with the State.

Boycott them, folks.
Money is all they respect, not God’s Word.


4 posted on 10/09/2011 5:57:55 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: NYer

Another faux “church”. Caving in to the sodomites and their gross perversion. I think someday this “church” is going to regret this.


5 posted on 10/09/2011 5:59:32 AM PDT by madmaximus (Liberaltarians=junkies,perverts,anti-semites,anti-military,cultural marxists without all the taxes)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

Exactly. Whatever they can’t destroy, they will infiltrate. Whatever they can’t infiltrate, they will destroy.


6 posted on 10/09/2011 6:00:53 AM PDT by madmaximus (Liberaltarians=junkies,perverts,anti-semites,anti-military,cultural marxists without all the taxes)
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To: NYer

Sad. This person’s selfish ambition in opposition to God’s word. Where God builds a church, Satan builds a chapel.


7 posted on 10/09/2011 6:16:32 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: NYer

“To the thousands of Presbyterians who have worked and prayed for almost 40 years for this day, I give thanks,”

I dunno - I thought if they actually prayed about this then they might have heard something contrary to their thinking or got stoney silence as you do when you know you are asking for the wrong thing. I would be surprised if anybody actually really prayed about this at all - they just force it through and then call it God’s Will.

Mel


8 posted on 10/09/2011 6:29:40 AM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong....)
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To: NYer

IMHO, God is not pleased.


9 posted on 10/09/2011 6:30:16 AM PDT by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
Flee the Presbyterian Church USA because it is promoting Adultery and Fornication.

Consider the Presbyterian Church of America because it has gone the exact opposite of that way (and followed the Lord and His word)>

The PCA, says Marriage is between one man and one woman and that sexuality is only ordained under that covenant.

Consider the PCA

10 posted on 10/09/2011 7:07:36 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: sr4402
Rev 17:1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters,
Rev 17:2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication."
Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.
Rev 17:5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Like many other churches, this church has decided to join the ranks of harlots. Who would think that members of a church would stand and give a thunderous standing O to a supposed minister of God who professes, embraces and is unrepentant of sin?

11 posted on 10/09/2011 7:15:55 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: NYer

This is why many people are not attending the Presbyterian Church anymore.


12 posted on 10/09/2011 7:33:57 AM PDT by FreedBird
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To: FreedBird

They are no longer a Christian church


13 posted on 10/09/2011 7:55:40 AM PDT by OldGoatCPO
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To: NYer

Isn’t this so called ‘church’ involved in divesting from Israel?


14 posted on 10/09/2011 7:55:50 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: sr4402

I tried that and found the church I went to pretty liberal as well. I was doubly surprised because I went expecting to find what you described. Instead, I found a bunch of Obama supporters who even had the ex-(disgraced) Mayor of Philadelphia, Wilson Good take the altar to beg for money for one of his pet organizations. And spending way too much time trying to guilt the congregation to hand over their earnings, even going so far as to equate them with stupid, greedy monkeys if they didn’t.

I assume it was the particular church I tried. But membership in any organization does not guarantee adherence to the rules of that organization. That’s why I tend to avoid those churches that identify with a big parent organization and prefer those that focus on the locality and the needs-at-hand, both universal and local.


15 posted on 10/09/2011 8:02:46 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

Was the PCA Church of which you speak in Philly? I’m surprised....I thought the PCA Church was a REALLY, really conservative one.


16 posted on 10/09/2011 8:13:12 AM PDT by goodnesswins (My Kid/Grandkids are NOT your ATM, liberals! (Sarah Palin))
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To: NYer
It is interesting that a giant fire ball exploded over the Madison area not long ago. The next one could explode on the Madison area. (Sodom & Gomorrah)
17 posted on 10/09/2011 8:18:54 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever ( Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: madmaximus

I think the Episcopalian Church is already feeling the effect from their descision for gay clergy. Strife, splits, and loosing membership. The Prsybyterians USA will soon follow. In fact it has already started. Prysbyterian Church America, a split, is already one of the fastest growing chuches in the country. http://www.prysbyterianamerica.org


18 posted on 10/09/2011 8:33:36 AM PDT by Vinylly
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To: FreedBird
I've said it before on here and I will say it again......I didn't leave the Prebyterian "Church," the Presbyterian "Church" left God.

Revelations 3:15-22

19 posted on 10/09/2011 8:36:15 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: Alex Murphy; Natural Law; MarkBsnr

Congratulations to your Presbys, Alex!


20 posted on 10/09/2011 8:55:13 AM PDT by Cronos (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2787101/posts?page=58#58)
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