They drove their bus over the cliff 10-20 years ago.
Posted on 11/08/2022 7:18:44 PM PST by marshmallow
The Presbyterian Church (USA) said it will be adding a “nonbinary/genderqueer” category to its annual reports.
PCUSA's Office of the General Assembly announced Tuesday that it was making a host of changes to how it reports denominational statistics on membership and the number of congregations.
Starting with next year’s statistics, the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States will add a nonbinary/genderqueer category, alongside the traditional men and women categories.
Kris Valerius, manager of denominational roles and statistics, said if they “want to be inclusive, then we have to start asking because you should be aware of who’s a part of your church.”
“We’ll have the same categories, we’re just not defining them any longer, which may upset people. The information will be there — we’re just removing the definitions,” she added.
“For instance, we’ve always asked how many female members there are in the church. We’re now asking how many men, women and nonbinary/genderqueer members there are. We’ve never asked that question so we don’t know how many people will fill it out.”
Other changes include altering the finance section, adding an age category to count how many members are 17 or 18, eliminating definitions from the ethnic and racial sections, and removing the Christian education section.
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Another church abandons Christ.
A dead church walking. Sorry guys, shuffle as you might, there is no way to make your dogs look like horses.
Church of Satan
Why this insanity?
Where in the Bible is there genderqueer?
Just no. If it upsets people, they should take a powder.
I’m so relieved I’m not a Presbyterian.
They drove their bus over the cliff 10-20 years ago.
PCUSA is rearranging the deck chairs ...
Ah, Presbyterians
Classic instance of Orwellian doublespeak!
"We will still mail you your bank account statements - we're just leaving off all the numbers!"
Words have meanings. If you delete the definitions, they aren't words any longer - just meaningless sounds!
Regards,
I posted too soon! They're actually doing it! All the numbers have probably been expunged from the finance section!
[...] eliminating definitions from the ethnic and racial sections [...]
After all, it's about how you feel, right?!
[...] and removing the Christian education section.
That's probably the most-consistent and honest thing they've done, since I doubt that they are still promulgating any authentic Christian teachings!
Regards,
We left the PCUSA 23 years ago. The denomination was taken over by democrats at the highest levels. Plus, they hate Israel.
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