For quite a while, PC(USA) national leadership and staff have functionned as a left-most-wing wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party.
A few links to the experiences of those who are committed to defeating this long-entrenched and out-of-control clerocracy:
http://www.layman.org/layman/the-lay-comm/williamson-parker.htm
http://www.layman.org/layman/the-layman/2001/no3-may-june01/ayres-whit-profile.htm
and the latest issue of their quarterly publication:
http://www.layman.org/layman/the-layman/2005/4-october-layman/october-05-layman-web.pdf
"For quite a while, PC(USA) national leadership and staff have functionned as a left-most-wing wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party."
PCUSA leader Kirkpatrick is not the only mainline protestant church leader who function as PAC's for the Democratic Party.
Read more here:
http://www.layman.org/layman/news/2005-news/senate-democrats-mainline-protestant.htm
and here
http://democrats.senate.gov/faith.html
A photo posted on 'A Word to the Faithful,' a Senate Democratic Caucus Web site, shows Sen. Harry Reid (second from right) meeting in his office in Washington, D.C., with (from left to right) Maureen Shea, director of government relations for the Episcopal Church USA; Rev. Frank T. Griswold, presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church (USA); Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA); Rev. Elenora Giddings Ivory, director of the Washington Office of the PCUSA; Rev. Ron Stief, director of the UCC Justice and Witness Ministries; and Jim Winkler, general secretary of the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church.