Posted on 06/07/2026 8:47:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A progressive Christian denomination is facing sharp internal backlash over a proposed rule that would require ordained clergy to be in monogamous sexual relationships.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is set to vote on the monogamy requirement at its General Assembly this summer in Milwaukee.
he PC(USA) has allowed for the ordination of openly gay clergy since 2011 and altered its definition of marriage to “two people” in 2014.
The new proposed rule, known as CON-10, does not mention sexual orientation or same-sex relationships. Instead, it targets multipartner relationships... ...
In its official response, the Advocacy Committee for Women and Gender Justice claimed that requiring pastors to be monogamous attempts to “regulate the private lives and relational structures of individuals in ways that risk harm rather than healing.” The committee further argued that a monogamy mandate could “unintentionally reinforce systems of shame, silence, and spiritual coercion.”
The Advocacy Committee on LGBTQIA+ Equity also argued that the monogamy rule reinforced White privilege.
The group claimed the mandate imposes “a narrow, culturally specific understanding of family” that “privileges a dominant cultural framework over the lived realities of communities of color and global Christians.”
The LGBTQIA+ panel also cited a 2024 academic study to defend multipartner relationships, claiming that polyamorous individuals report relationship satisfaction comparable to monogamous couples.
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Jim Jones was just ahead of his time. And yet even then the local San Francisco Democrats, like Harvey Milk, worshipped the guy.
But in the end it was a Democrat, who tried to stop him, and paid for it with his life.
The way was lost many years ago. The present article is merely a description of how far away from the path the PCUSA had deviated.
The irony is that my very best friend of my youth became a PCUSA ordained minister and he was a leftist of the Nth degree. His wife was worse.
I attend an NA group that meets in the library of the local Presbyterian Church. Proudly displayed is Climate Change by Greta Thunberg. The rest of the library has similar drivel. It’s sad.
It is interesting how those letters keep growing. Now they have to add a plus sign just to keep up.
I don’t think I will try to assess the logic behind the White privilege mythology substituting for normalcy.
No the Presbyterian Church USA has lost it’s way. The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) and others are still faithful Scripture believing Calvinists.
Thank you.
- Exodus 20:3 KJV
This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; not given to wine, not violent,not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not [d]covetous; one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?); 6 not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.There were no white European people in the picture when that guidance was given to the Church.
.............................—1 Timothy 3:1-6
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I was under the impression that PCUSA’s leadership was more liberal than the membership. Maybe enough members have quit that it’s the other way now.
Congregational churches are pretty rare these days.
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