As you may know, this past summer the Prbyterian Church (PCUSA) cid to allow the ordatn of gay clergy. Yterday a new Prbyterian nomatn
Contents:
- ECO, THE NEW ANTI-GAY PRBYTERIAN DENOMATN: COWARDLY LNS
- ANTI-GAY CHRISTIANS NVENG TODAY. WHAT ARE THEY HIDG?
- PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN
ECO, THE NEW ANTI-GAY PRBYTERIAN DENOMATN: COWARDLY LNS
* eco presbyterian gay *
ECO, the New Anti-Gay Prbyterian Denomatn: Cowardly Lns. As you may know, this past summer the Prbyterian Church (PCUSA) cid to allow the ordatn of gay clergy. They’re agast gay people beg ordaed as misters, and so started their own sub-nomatn where that would be prohibed.
They won’t say that they’re a one-issue anizatn, that they exist solely opposn to PCUSA’s sanctng the ordatn of gay people. Yterday’s Rters story about ECO is tled Prbyterian group breaks away over gay clergy.
Yet you n search high and low throughout ECO’s webse, and nowhere will you fd a sgle, solary word about gay people or homosexualy. Jt say that you’ve formed bee you believe that gays shouldn’t be ordaed!
ANTI-GAY CHRISTIANS NVENG TODAY. WHAT ARE THEY HIDG?
It means they’re as unfortable as, God knows, they should be about excludg gay people om full participatn the life that J so passnately offered to all. Related Post: Our [Prbyterian] Church: “Sign This Anti-Gay Statement, or Leave”. (UPDATE: A menter to this post wrote: “As a PCUSA pastor I n tell you a big reason why ECO was formed was bee the pastors the anti-gay lobby receive very genero pensn and medil benefs om the PCUSA that they are aaid to leave behd should they follow their nscience to disaffiliate om the nomatn.
” Gee, what a surprise: anti-gay Christian lears whose nscience ends where their wallets beg. “Lol Church Leave Denomatn Over Homosexualy”.
The last thg I want is for our ngregatn to be known the muny as “the church that hat gay people. ” For a church a cy that was recently voted “The Gayist Cy Ameri, ” such a reputatn uld have a negative impact on our missn. ” A typil rint of our neighborhood would be unlikely to give the Gospel a fair hearg om the pulp or om dividual ttimony if he or she thought that homophobia was any way nnected to what we are advotg through our church.
PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN
Addnally, a brief admonn agast homosexualy the ntext of a worship service n be extremely disuragg to someone who is stgglg wh same-sex attractn. I do believe is possible to preach agast homosexual activy a pastorally-sensive way, but tak time to velop a msage that is balanced and pastoral.
And many of the announcements I had to mentn the issue of homosexualy. Even so, the months that followed, I had a number of somewhat straed nversatns wh acquatanc the muny who had pated me and our church wh a fairly broad bsh of homophobia. What is even more notable is that now that we are a nomatn that has taken a more clear and nsistent stance on sexualy issu, I haven’t mentned homosexualy om the pulp once.