Posted on 09/02/2007 11:56:32 AM PDT by wagglebee
SAN FRANCISCO - A Presbyterian minister has received the lightest possible punishment after being found guilty of violating church law by officiating at the weddings of two lesbian couples.
A regional judicial committee of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ruled that the actions by the Reverend Jane Spahr of San Rafael, California, were at odds with the denomination's constitution.
But the court gave Spahr the mildest penalty it could -- a rebuke -- which amounts to a warning not to do it again. She could have been removed from ministry.
Spahr, who came out as a lesbian three decades ago, is retiring from ministry anyway, but says she'll appeal the court's ruling.
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I'm surprised that a Presbyterian minister received any punishment at all after decades ago the Presbyterian church supported the defense of the felon Angela Davis via contributions achieved by the passed around service donation plate.
What can you expect from women “ministers”? Many of them are lesbians themselves. All of them are breaking God’s proscriptions against women being ministers.
It’s a shame. The PCA had a church in San Fran that took off and grew. It left in order to have women deacons and elders . . .
To keep a conservative church in a non-conservative area you really need to make sure of who a person is before you make them a full church member.
PCA and PCUSA are very different Presbyterian groups. Perhaps it was a PCUSA church you were talking about in San Francisco.
Nope, City Church in S. Fran. was PCA left to allow women as deacons and elders.
John Calvin and his buddy John Knox must be so proud.
PCUSA is shrinking like flannel in hot water.
I'm not sure what that statement even means. You are saying that the church left San Francisco? Or did the church leave the PCA? What did you mean, exactly?
The church left the PCA.
OK. That makes sense. Good riddance to that church. I guess the chances of a PCA church making it in Sa Fran were pretty much nil from the start.
It’s sad though to lose a little beacon like a PCA church in San Fran. What about the poor families and Christians that are in the city? I hope they go with home churches. You need a conservative church that doesn’t step onto the slippery slope there at all for it to survive. After the women deacons and elders will come women preachers, then marinate that social liberalism for a while in San Francisco and you know where they will go with their treatment of the homosexuality issue.
Here in Houston, TX it is also pretty difficult to find a church that has not been eaten up with moral relativism. My wife and I are still searching after seeing our PC USA church of many years go down the tubes. We are trying to find a PCA church we like, and they are few and far-between.
You’ve probably found this already, but here is a link to the directory of PCA Churches.
http://www.pcanet.org/directory.asp
We love our PCA church here in Florida.
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