***Observation) [Open], enat wrote:
“Whether you like it or not, members of the PCUSA consider themselves, and are generally considered to be, Calvinists”
And Dignity and Catholics for a Free Choice consider themselves Catholics. What is your point?.***
PCUSA is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States. Pro abortion Catholic groups are not denominations for one thing, and they do not represent the majority of Catholics and certainly do not represent the faith.
What do denominations have to do with anything? All denominations are are a group of churches bound together by a covenant and bylaws, much the same as Dignity and Catholics for a Free Choice are bound together by a covenant and bylaws; one that used to be Calvinistic but moved away from its roots back at the turn of the 20th century and the others who still profess to be Catholics but have moved away from their roots.
True Calvinists have broken away or are in the process of breaking away from the PCUSA just as Anglicans are breaking away from TEC.
Just because some in the Catholic Church have ordained homosexuals or because a Bishop has recently authorized Church funds for an abortion does not mean that the Catholic Church condones the actions and neither does it mean that because the PCUSA which once was Calvinistic and condones abortion and homosexuality, Calvinists condone those actions.