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PCUSA Ordains First Married Lesbian Couple as Ministers Days After Denomination's Marriage Amendment
Christian Post ^ | 03/22/2015 | BY ANUGRAH KUMAR

Posted on 03/22/2015 7:48:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Days after America's largest Presbyterian denomination approved an amendment to its constitution changing its definition of marriage to include same-sex couples, a lesbian couple will be ordained as ministers Sunday at First & Central Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware.

Kaci Clark-Porter and Holly, who married three years ago, will be the first-ever same-sex couple to be jointly ordained, according to USA Today, which says the denomination couldn't point to other examples.

Last year, Presbyterian Church (USA) approved a vote on an amendment to change their official definition of marriage from "a man and a woman" to "two people, traditionally a man and a woman." And on Tuesday, the proposed change to PCUSA's Book of Order got the necessary number of presbytery votes.

The ordination service will be held Sunday afternoon.

Both were raised in conservative Texas homes, divorced their husbands and came out in their 20s during seminary.

"It wasn't until I started serving here at First & Central that I felt like I really became a pastor," WDDE quoted Clark-Porter as saying. "That I was really able to care for people. Because I finally cared for myself, and this community cared for me and accepted me, and accepted my relationship to Holly fully."

Clark-Porter will now be the church's associate pastor, and Holly runs the Big Gay Church, which operates at First & Central.

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


TOPICS: Mainline Protestant; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: delaware; gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; ordination; pcusa; presbyterian
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1 posted on 03/22/2015 7:48:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Kaci Clark-Porter (left) and Holly
2 posted on 03/22/2015 7:48:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is wrong on so many levels. It is not a Christian church.


3 posted on 03/22/2015 7:51:01 PM PDT by ealgeone
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I give 'em six months, maybe two years at the outside.
4 posted on 03/22/2015 7:57:30 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: SeekAndFind

The same-sex “marriage” advocates never stop pounding the square peg into a round hole.


5 posted on 03/22/2015 7:58:05 PM PDT by windsorknot
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> "It wasn't until I started serving here at First & Central that I felt like I really became a pastor," WDDE quoted Clark-Porter as saying. "That I was really able to care for people. Because I finally cared for myself, and this community cared for me and accepted me, and accepted my relationship to Holly fully."

Me. Me. ME. ME! ME! MEEEE!!! IT'S ALL ABOUT MEEEEEE!!!

God? Nah, not so much about God...

6 posted on 03/22/2015 7:58:37 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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> The same-sex “marriage” advocates never stop pounding the square peg into a round hole.

OUCH!

7 posted on 03/22/2015 7:59:21 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is an alternative: PCA, Presbyterian Church in America.

Here is the website with a handy church finder:

www.pcanet.org


8 posted on 03/22/2015 8:00:07 PM PDT by jocon307 (Tell it like it is.)
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To: SeekAndFind

One is always the guy. Guess which one is the guy from the photo.


9 posted on 03/22/2015 8:02:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying , Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
10 posted on 03/22/2015 8:04:14 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Seek.... The noise you hear is the hammering of nails in the coffin.


11 posted on 03/22/2015 8:05:31 PM PDT by willibeaux (de ole Korean War vet age 85)
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To: ealgeone

They are hook-up dens for sex with children. It’s what homo-freaks live for.


12 posted on 03/22/2015 8:06:38 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Note that there is no one In the pews. Why would there BE ANYONE?


13 posted on 03/22/2015 8:21:01 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes And clever in their own sight.


14 posted on 03/22/2015 8:21:17 PM PDT by QuisCustodiet1776 (Live free or die.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What, no polygamy? Is the PCUSA Polyphobic?


15 posted on 03/22/2015 8:28:14 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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The Big Gay Church

yikes!!

16 posted on 03/22/2015 8:30:23 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: SeekAndFind

Our local ABC News outlet ran this story on their 10pm newscast this evening as though it was a red letter day for the entire country.


17 posted on 03/22/2015 8:35:57 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Where are His people supposed to go?


18 posted on 03/22/2015 8:38:22 PM PDT by madison10
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To: jocon307; SeekAndFind; ealgeone

The Orthodox Presbyterian Church opc.org is another.


19 posted on 03/22/2015 8:39:05 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: SeekAndFind
Just down the street from me. Doggone, I missed it! /sarc (squared)
20 posted on 03/22/2015 8:41:35 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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