The Presbyterian Response to Homosexual Clergy

New American ^ | 04 March 2011 | Dave Bohon

[americanophile]

The Presbyterian Church-USA, one of the nation’s oldest and largest mainline Christian denominations, is in the middle of a crucial vote among its leadership to determine whether or not open homosexuals will be allowed to fill the church’s pulpits. At the denomination’s General Assembly in July 2010, delegates approved by a 373 to 323 vote a measure that would allow open homosexuals to pastor and minister in the flagship Presbyterian denomination’s 11,000 congregations and serve its estimated 2.3 million members.

A vote on the amendment is now making its way through the church’s 173 regional presbyteries, a process that must be completed by this summer. If half of the presbyteries approve the measure, references to sexuality will be stricken from the denomination’s bylaws and homosexuals will be allowed ordination. The General Assembly has approved homosexual ordination three times in the past, only to have the change rejected by the regional presbyteries.

[Salvation]

**For all Presbyterian USA Freepers, it’s time NOW to leave the apostate USA church! Go PCA, Orthodox, or any other denomination that still believe in the inerrancy of the Scriptures**

Or better yet, come home to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

RCIA classes are bulging and we will have a record number of converts this year. Next year could be even larger.

[Salvation]

I think evangelical baptists will come after the Presbyterians.

[Salvavida]

I’m not sure what an evangelical Baptist is, but I will agree with you that any church that abandons the Bible as the sole source of authority for all matters of faith and Christian living, they will slide into apostasy.

I pray the Baptists, and those that hold to the Scriptures will endure to the end.