Presbyterian leaders approves gay clergy policy

Yahoo / AP ^ | July 8, 2010 | Patrick Condon

[driftdiver]

MINNEAPOLIS – Presbyterian leaders voted Thursday to allow non-celibate gays in committed relationships to serve as clergy, approving the first of two policy changes that could make their church one of the most gay-friendly major Christian denominations in the U.S.

But the vote isn't a final stamp of approval for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) or its more than 2 million members.

Delegates voted during the church's general assembly in Minneapolis, with 53 percent approving the more liberal policy on gay clergy. A separate vote is expected later Thursday on whether to change the church's definition of marriage from between "a man and a woman" to between "two people."

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"The world has become a more tolerant and accepting place," Wind said. "I've grown up with gay and lesbian friends, teachers, even spiritual leaders. They stand proud as people who deserve the same rights as all human beings."

[driftdiver]

so sad

[Recon Dad]

Turn out the lights, another one bites the dust.

[hometoroost]

Glad we left last year.

[California74]

Didn’t this already happen a couple years ago??

[highlander_UW]

"The world has become a more tolerant and accepting place," Wind said.

So much for that being in the world and not of the world thing.

[Soothesayer]

What could be more useless than sex obsessed clergy?

[driftdiver]

New story, new vote. They’ve been moving this way for a few years.

[hinckley buzzard]

It is sad, pathetic really. But I believe the presbies need ratification from the congregations, unlike the piskies or lut'erans.

Maybe there is still hope.

[patriot preacher]

“Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by] our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first....” (2 Thessalonians 2:1-3a)

Just another symptom of the “falling away.” Next on the agenda, the “man of sin” [aka- AntiChrist] will be revealed... (vs. 3b)

Thankfully, I’m not planning on hanging around for that one :-D

[hinckley buzzard]

Wouldn't you just love to receive communion from a homosexual preacher, wondering where his hand was, a few hours ago?

[driftdiver]

The congregations are represented by the people at this event. The gays have worked for several years to get the people in the right spots.

[LearsFool]

Somebody once tried to tell me that “America is a Christian nation.” It still makes me chuckle.

[driftdiver]

America is a Christian nation. Its sad that you get a kick out of those who have fallen away.

[rsobin]

Romans 1:26-27 (King James Version)

26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Stick a fork in them, their done.

[rashley]

Now that is disgusting! All this insanity is making it very hard for me to attend a church.

[BikerJoe]

Glad we left last year.

Yup. To paraphrase RWR, "I didn't leave the Presbyterian Church, they left me".

[LearsFool]

America is a Christian nation.

Yeah? Well if this is Christianity, it's no wonder Islam is the fastest growing religion. Even those Muslim nuts recognize an abomination when they see it, and deal with it. - And not by appointing the debased perverts to be their religious leaders either!

Just take a look at post #15 above and see what America's so-called "Christian example" does to people.

This is as Christian a nation as Sodom and Gomorrah were Christian cities. And Abraham had to dicker with God over those cities, trying to find even a handful of righteous people so God would spare everyone there. How'd that work out?

[driftdiver]

So move to Saudi Arabia and live the example.

[martin_fierro]

Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)

[RushingWater]

1 Corinthians 6
9. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,
10. nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.