From this morning's Post-Gazette-
Pittsburgh Presbytery, which has a history of opposing gay ordination, has rejected a proposal intended to close a loophole that supporters believed could open the presbytery to openly gay pastors.
Officials of the presbytery don't believe Thursday's 125-54 vote signals a change in the presbytery's views. They say commissioners found it too similar to a 2006 presbytery rule that church courts struck down.
The proposal from Bellefield Presbyterian Church, Oakland, was intended to counter a decision by this summer's General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) to allow the ordination of candidates who express "a departure from an ordination standard in matters of belief or practice." The most controversial standard requires pastors to abstain from sex outside of heterosexual marriage. The Bellefield proposal required candidates to reply "yes" when asked if they upheld the "essential tenets of the Reformed faith" -- which include beliefs about marriage.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08341/933252-53.stm
1 comment:
Even Bob Duncan recommended a gay encouraged a gay candidate to seek ordination. That person was ordained in another diocese. Duncan even licensed gay clergy in the diocese.
What is this all really about? Worry about what happens in your bedroom is my motto.
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