[Bryanw92]

I’m not Presbyterian, but I look forward to reading a rebuttal from someone in the PCUSA. I’m not disagreeing with you (since I don’t know one from the other). I’d just like to hear what the other side says.

[Gamecock]

We'll just have to munch on some popcorn until someone comes along.

[srmorton]

My father was a Presbyterian minister in NC for over 35 years until his retirement in 1975. Being from the South, he was more closely aligned with the PCUS, a more conservative body than PCUSA, but this was prior to the founding of the PCA. I married one of his former parishioners and always thought of myself as Presbyterian.

In 1988 when George H. W. Bush was running against Dukakis. omeone (maybe my MIL) sent us a subscription to The Presbyterian Survey which had both party platforms printed right beside the church's position on each issue. Even then, it was very pro-choice, pro-gay, and pro-women pastors (which was unusual at the time). I was truly shocked and realized then that I did not believe in the same things as the denomination to which I had belonged since the age of 14!

Although these issues do not touch the small local church such as the one to which I belonged at the time, I have never felt myself to be Presbyterian since then. I now go to a Methodist Church. I still do not agree with everything that goes on there, but it is a far cry from the PCUSA!

[NoCmpromiz]

I look forward to reading a rebuttal from someone in the PCUSA.

As someone whose membership was in the PCUSA* until about two years ago, I think you will be waiting a looong time for a rebutal from the PCUSA side.

*Our congregation split from the PCUSA to join the Evangelical Presbyterian Church at that time for most of these same reasons. We did manage to escape PCUSA with our property...