Posted on 03/18/2015 7:07:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) have voted to make the 1.8-million-member, 10,000-congregation denomination the largest Protestant group to formally recognize gay marriage allow same-sex weddings.
The Presbytery of the Palisades in New Jersey cast the necessary 86th vote Tuesday night to establish that a majority of the church’s 171 regional presbyteries now support an amendment to the church constitution that redefines marriage, the Associated Press reported.
“Marriage involves a unique commitment between two people, traditionally a man and a woman, to love and support each other for the rest of their lives,” the church’s Book of Order will read, effective June 21, according to an announcement on the Presbyterian Church’s website.
Gradye Parsons, the stated clerk of the church’s General Assembly, posted a video pledging that nothing in the amendment would compel those members who do not approve of same-sex marriage from participating in the weddings.
“The approval allows teaching elders wider discretion whose wedding they may conduct and sessions wider discretion whose weddings they may host,” Parsons said. “That discretion could include same gender marriages in states where that’s permitted.”
The Assembly approved the language last summer, but activists who have been pushing for the change for years had to sweat out the votes among the church’s districts.
“So many families headed by LGBTQ couples have been waiting for decades to enter this space created for their families within their church communities,” Rev. Robin White, a leader of More Light Presbyterians, told AP.
Yet 41 of the regional bodies have voted to disapprove the measure, according to AP. The church approved gay ordination in 2011 and 428 congregations had either left the fold or disbanded two years later, the outlet noted.
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More hell-bound apostates, who call God a liar.
Presbyterians have come a long way in the last 100 years. (Not a good way.)
Stick a fork in ‘em.
They’re done.
The demise of Western Civilization accelerates.
Well, this branch of Presbyterians.
True.
Merely formalizing what they’ve been accepting for quite some time.
Not all Presbyterians agree with such world religion preparations.
So Presbyterians have decided to formally leave the Christian faith. They should make a clear statement to that effect instead of pretending...although such lies and pretenses are satan’s most effective tools.
This move in no wise characterizes historical Presbyterianism.
I'm an Episcopalian ... same problems, if not worse.
Let that church recognize it BUT GOD will not.
And exactly why my church left the PCUSA last year.
After we paid them $9M for “their” property.
RE: After we paid them $9M for “their” property.
Boy, your church must be special. Not many churches can afford to do that at all!
It was predestined...a little prysbyterian humor there. Well The Bible is quite clear that this is wrong. And intresting thought...would Presbyterians welcome a youth pastor who was accused of molesting kids in his charge? Or a Pastor who was carrying on an affiar with the church secretary? The question one needs to ask why is the “sin” of homosexuality gets a free pass but not those and others I have not mentioned?
Freegards
LEX
Glad the Rev. D. James Kennedy went on to his eternal reward rather than seeing his Presby denomination become as heretics.
The Bible predicted the Great Falling Away before the last days. It is now here.
I guess the Presbyterians are challenging the Episcopalians as the “Church” of Faggotry.
This is weird. I can’t imagine any church I’ve been a member of doing this. The list includes AG, Baptist, Foursquare, Christian and non-denominational. None of them would even entertain the idea.
BTW, the list is long because we used to move a lot.
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