Posted on 06/17/2005 9:34:14 PM PDT by SmithL
Schenectady, NY -- Leaders of the Reformed Church in America suspended a New Jersey minister Friday night, ruling that he violated the denomination's teachings by officiating at his lesbian daughter's wedding.
A majority of delegates voted to suspend the Rev. Norman Kansfield from the ministry until he changes his views to fall in line with church doctrine. They also stripped him of his standing as a professor of theology in the RCA.
Kansfield, 65, who has served in the church for 40 years, said the decision was "going to be very hard to deal with — my life has been the ministry."
"The church of Jesus Christ needs to be as inclusive as the arms of our Lord himself," he added.
He had performed his daughter's wedding ceremony last June in Massachusetts, shortly after it became the first state to allow same-sex marriages. Kansfield was dismissed in January from his presidency of one of the church's two seminaries
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What could I add to that?
So9
When will people stop watering down what the Word of God says? One thing God isn't is tolerant. Someday His truth will be revealed. It's no wonder that "the Church" of today is falling apart.
Too many protestant churches have left the Word of God.
We are now living in the days such as Noah lived.
People who do not know God often mistake his longsuffering for tolerance.
Short version of an Abe Lincoln proverb:
Abe- Son, how many legs does a cow have.
Kid- Four.
Abe- Yes. Now if I call his tail a leg, how many legs does the cow have.
Kid- Five.
Abe- NOoooo! Just because I "call" his tail a leg, doesn't make it so!
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