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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.
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TOPICS: Mainline Protestant; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: delaware; gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; ordination; pcusa; presbyterian
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To: SeekAndFind
Kaci Clark-Porter (left) and Holly
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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.)
To: SeekAndFind
This is wrong on so many levels. It is not a Christian church.
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posted on
03/22/2015 7:51:01 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: SeekAndFind
I give 'em six months, maybe two years at the outside.
To: SeekAndFind
The same-sex “marriage” advocates never stop pounding the square peg into a round hole.
To: SeekAndFind
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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...
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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.)
To: windsorknot
>
The same-sex marriage advocates never stop pounding the square peg into a round hole. OUCH!
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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.)
To: SeekAndFind
This is an alternative: PCA, Presbyterian Church in America.
Here is the website with a handy church finder:
www.pcanet.org
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posted on
03/22/2015 8:00:07 PM PDT
by
jocon307
(Tell it like it is.)
To: SeekAndFind
One is always the guy. Guess which one is the guy from the photo.
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posted on
03/22/2015 8:02:28 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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.
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posted on
03/22/2015 8:04:14 PM PDT
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: SeekAndFind
Seek.... The noise you hear is the hammering of nails in the coffin.
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posted on
03/22/2015 8:05:31 PM PDT
by
willibeaux
(de ole Korean War vet age 85)
To: ealgeone
They are hook-up dens for sex with children. It’s what homo-freaks live for.
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posted on
03/22/2015 8:06:38 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
To: SeekAndFind
Note that there is no one In the pews. Why would there BE ANYONE?
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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!)
To: All
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.
To: SeekAndFind
What, no polygamy? Is the PCUSA Polyphobic?
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posted on
03/22/2015 8:28:14 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: SeekAndFind
The Big Gay Church yikes!!
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posted on
03/22/2015 8:30:23 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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.
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posted on
03/22/2015 8:35:57 PM PDT
by
Wiser now
(Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
To: Jan_Sobieski
Where are His people supposed to go?
To: jocon307; SeekAndFind; ealgeone
The Orthodox Presbyterian Church opc.org is another.
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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)
To: SeekAndFind
Just down the street from me. Doggone, I missed it! /sarc (squared)
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posted on
03/22/2015 8:41:35 PM PDT
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
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