Prbyterian Church Wants The Power To Exclu Gay Stunts – DNA

Contents:

• PRBYTERIAN MISTER FAC SANCTNS OVER GAY UPLE SUPPORT
• FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER TO BE ORDAED BY PRBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) TOMORROW
• THE PROJECT'S HAMISH MACDONALD SLAMS PRBYTERIAN CHURCH PROPOSED BAN ON GAY SCHOOL LEARS
• PRBYTERIAN CHURCH WANTS THE POWER TO EXCLU GAY STUNTS
• PRBYTERIAN CHURCH COUNCIL CONSIRS BANNG GAY STUNT LEARS CHURCH-OWNED SCHOOLS
• STCH COLLEGE REJECTS PRBYTERIAN CHURCH’S STANCE ON GAY AND SEXUALLY ACTIVE STUNTS

PRBYTERIAN MISTER FAC SANCTNS OVER GAY UPLE SUPPORT

Image ptn, Steven Smyrl had been an elr at Christ Church, Sandymount, Dubl sce 2007A Prbyterian mister and a church uncil are facg disciplary sanctns for "endorsg a homosexual relatnship" Rev Kathere Meyer and the Christ Church, Sandymount church uncil, were found to have jtified "approval for that which scripture God nmns" Smyrl was sacked as an elr at the Dubl church October the Prbyterian Church cid to vtigate the learship which allowed Mr Smyrl - who is a same-sex marriage - to be an elr. "In ntrast, however, both the mister and church uncil of Christ Church, Sandymount, have supported the homosexual relatnship of two of s members over many years.

"'Grave jtice'When ntacted by BBC News NI, Mr Smyrl claimed that the charg were "aimed only at publicly dimishg the liv of gay Prbyterians". The Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force applds the historic ordatn of Stt Anrson set for tomorrow Madison, Wis. He will bee the first openly gay mister ordaed by the Prbyterian Church (USA) sce the nomatn amend s nstutn this year to elimate official barriers to the ordatn of people based on their sexual orientatn.

FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER TO BE ORDAED BY PRBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) TOMORROW

“So much of my work wh the Shower of Stol Project volv holdg my hands every day symbols of loss — loss of mistry, loss of votn, loss of llg, ” says David Lohman, fah work ordator at the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force.

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THE PROJECT'S HAMISH MACDONALD SLAMS PRBYTERIAN CHURCH PROPOSED BAN ON GAY SCHOOL LEARS

Suggt guil for fahful Christian rponse to the nflicts between valu, rights, and human muni manift relatn to homosexualy, both the life of the church, cludg ordatn, and wh rpect to broad social polici. Hamish Macdonald slams ntroversial church lls to ban gay stunts om school learship rol: 'It don't make sense'Project host slams Prbyterian Church proposalChurch don't want gay or sexually active stunts learshipMacdonald don't see how ban would be enforced Published: 15:19 BST, 14 April 2023 | Updated: 17:50 BST, 14 April 2023. The Project host Hamish Macdonald has slammed the Prbyterian Church's proposed ban on gay and sexually active stunts om learship rol.

Macdonald, an openly gay man, shared his thoughts on the church's ntroversial lls durg Friday's panel discsn and said he don't see how the ban would actually be 's also a former stunt of The Sts College, one of Atralia's olst and most rpected Prbyterian schools Sydney's eastern suburbs. 'Are you serly gog to ask 16 and 17-year-old kids vyg to be a school prefect or head prefect 'are you gay? ' The Project host Hamish Macdonald (right) qutned how The Prbyterian Church would enforce s proposed ban of gay and sexually active stunts om learship rolMacdonald also exprsed ncern that the proposal uld create new level of stigma around homosexualy relig schools.

PRBYTERIAN CHURCH WANTS THE POWER TO EXCLU GAY STUNTS

Macdonald (pictured wh his partner, Jab Fzroy) said the proposed ban uld also create a 'don't ask, don't tell policy' around homosexualy relig schools The church ma the extraordary mand a submissn to the Atralian Law Reform Prbyterian Church is also advotg for the ban to apply to anyone who has sex outsi of ALRC is currently reviewg relig schools and their exemptn om feral anti-discrimatn schools are currently not held acuntable to the law if the discrimatn adher to their relig tenants and ALRC has asked for feedback on some of the proposed chang that would make unlawful to discrimate agast stunts based on their sexual Prbyterian Church argued s submissn that stunts mt be able to give 'appropriate Christian learship' if they are elected as school pta. UPDATE: Sce this article was wrten, a stunt pta at the Melbourne Grammar School has e out as gay.

The church is specifilly queryg whether a policy that disallows stunts actively partakg homosexual acts or any other form of sex outsi of Biblil marriage om servg learship rol wh the schools would be admissible unr the untry’s new strict anti-discrimatn laws. When asked by Christiany Today why his book is dited to a gay Atralian polician, Bird revealed that rather than take a prcipled Biblil posn on sexualy, he believ that Pagans and Christians need to jt e around the table, have a seri of nversatns, and then somehow appease LGBT people wh a grand promise. Tim is a gay man who is married to another man.

PRBYTERIAN CHURCH COUNCIL CONSIRS BANNG GAY STUNT LEARS CHURCH-OWNED SCHOOLS

Stch College rejects Prbyterian Church’s stance on gay and sexually active stuntsHigh-fee Prbyterian boys’ school Stch College says disagre wh the church’s view that sexually active heterosexual or LGBTIQ+ stunts should not be school a letter to the school muny, llege uncil chairman Alex Sloan said the school did “not tolerate discrimatn towards our staff or stunts, cludg on the basis of sexual orientatn, genr inty, maral or relatnship stat or pregnancy”.

STCH COLLEGE REJECTS PRBYTERIAN CHURCH’S STANCE ON GAY AND SEXUALLY ACTIVE STUNTS