Prbyterian Church (USA) chang s nstutn to clu gay marriage - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• 3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
• PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN
• PRBYTERIANS HAVE VARIED VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• PRBYTERIAN CHURCH FORMALLY APPROV GAY MARRIAGE CHURCH NSTUTN
• PRBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) CHANG S NSTUTN TO CLU GAY MARRIAGE

3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE

” Meanwhile, on Twter, the Relign News Service announced that wh the PC(USA) change “male Prottants have solidified their support for gay marriage. “I remember Chris wrote , ” she says, sharg the story of how her son me out to her as gay. ” McCallum remembers visg her son’s apartment where he was leadg a Bible study for gay men.

She had never nmned homosexualy as agast God’s will, but tth be told, she had been uneasy wh .

When an associate pastor said to me, ‘I have a gay brother, and he don’t have any more time for you to study the matter, ’ I ma a cisn. I am glad that a pastor is not forced to officiate at any marriage, heterosexual or homosexual, if they don’t feel is wise. Jt as the church changed her stance on slavery and women’s role the church, some of have e to unrstand the biblil prohibns of homosexual behavr to refer stead to vlent sexual acts agast anyone, wh specific reference to sexual acts between men and children.

PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN

Correctn append, March 18 The Prbyterian Church (USA) ma a historic cisn Tuday night to formally regnize gay marriage and allow same-sex upl to marry s ngregatns. “Fally, the church s nstutnal documents fully regniz that the love of gays and lbian upl is worth celebratg the fah muny, ” Rev.

Ellison, executive director of the Covenant Network of Prbyterians, which advot for the cln of gay people the church, told the Tim. Morator Heath Rada durg bate June 2014 on a vote Detro that approved changg the church's nstutn to regnize same-sex Guralnick / The Detro News via APIN-DEPTHPrbyterian Church (USA) Lears Declare Gay Marriage Is ChristianAt 59%, Support for Same-Sex Marriage Hs New HighSupreme Court Agre to Deci on Same-Sex Marriage. It has weled gay people sce 1976, when s General Conventn cid that “homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim wh all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern and re of the Church.

(RNS) — Pastors and church lears the Prbyterian Church Ameri passed an overture at s General Assembly this week sayg those who intify as gay are not qualified for ordatn the nservative Prbyterian nomatn. RELATED: Julie Rodgers shar story of survivg ‘ex-gay’ mistri new book and Netflix documentary. The overture clus any inty Christians may profs “that unrm or ntradicts their inty as new creatns Christ, ” though sgl out “gay Christian, ” “same sex attracted Christian” and “homosexual Christian” among those inti.

PRBYTERIANS HAVE VARIED VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE

The nomatn already bars any “practicg homosexual” om ordatn. Those who profs an inty (such as, but not limed to, ‘gay Christian, ’ ‘same sex attracted Christian, ’ ‘homosexual Christian, ’ or like terms) that unrm or ntradicts their inty as new creatns Christ, eher by nyg the sfulns of fallen sir (such as, but not limed to, same sex attractn), or by nyg the realy and hope of progrsive sanctifitn, or by failg to pursue Spir-empowered victory over their sful temptatns, clatns, and actns are not qualified for ordaed office.

Barber told the elrs votg on the overture that s tent is not to exclu Christians who are gay but rema celibate. “We don’t need to amend our nstutn to make a non-affirmg nomatn (hostile) to gay people who want to follow J celibacy, ” the Rev.

PRBYTERIAN CHURCH FORMALLY APPROV GAY MARRIAGE CHURCH NSTUTN

Johnson, who voted agast the overture, has prevly shared his story as a “gay atheist kid who experienced a nversn to J llege and has joyfully walked wh him celibacy ever sce. The pastor pots a fger at the ex-gay movement and nversn therapy, which, while wily discreded the mental health field, he said ntu to shape many evangelils’ beliefs about and expectatns of LGBTQ people.

His book, “Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn om the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexualy, ” releas September.

“While the ex-gay movement is ad, s daver walks about unad among . “The reigng cultural narrative is that ‘Christians hate gay people.

PRBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) CHANG S NSTUTN TO CLU GAY MARRIAGE

Prbyterians Have Varied Views On Gay Marriage Twenty years ago, few Amerins approved of homosexualy or thought gay marriage should be legal. Prbyterians Have Varied Views On Gay Marriage. Twenty years ago, few Amerins approved of homosexualy or thought gay marriage should be legal.

Good days after North Carola voters banned gay marriage and four days after Print Obama said he supports , lns of Amerins got up yterday and went to church.

But even this relatively liberal church, Ferris don't say a word about gay marriage om the pulp, and that's by sign. I me here, and my ey were opened and my thoughts Liz Ostranr and her hband Dick have been g to Old Pe sce 1971, when they moved to Philalphia om OSTRANDER: We had very ltle, if any experience wh homosexualy until we moved to this ltle area the center cy of Then the Ostranrs met their next-door neighbors, David and Jerry. And I, for one, said hooray when Obama said what he But the reactn to print Obama's endorsement of gay marriage was very different jt 10 away the Philalphia suburb of Havertown.

Manoa left the Prbyterian Church USA last year after the church voted to allow gay and lbian clergy. It's an anthis to the fn of Johnston says she wasn't planng to vote for Print Obama before his announcement about gay marriage. But as I'm stg and watchg this on TV, I have to rethk my But Bethea's fellow ngregant Gerald Lockhart says his thoughts on gay marriage have changed, jt like the prints'.

You know, you work wh gays. You're around gays more. So that's my hope, that maybe 50 years om now, 'll be jt as normal as terracial upl But for now, gay marriage remas sharply divisive, even among people stg the same church Rose, NPR News, Philalphia.

) approved refg marriage the church nstutn Tuday to clu a "mment between two people, " beg the largt Prottant group to formally regnize gay marriage as Christian and allow same-sex weddgs every new fn was endorsed last year by the church General Assembly, or top legislative body, but required approval om a majory of the nomatn's 171 regnal districts, or prbyteri. Rob Whe, a lear of More Light Prbyterians, which advot for gay acceptance wh the far, 41 prbyteri have rejected the refn, which clus a provisn that no clergy would be pelled to pri at a gay marriage or host such a ceremony on church property. The vote one prbytery was tied, acrdg to a tally by the Covenant Network of Prbyterians, a pro-gay group that works to keep Prbyterians uned spe theologil year, the church had allowed misters to pri at gay weddgs if lol church lears approved stat where the unns were legally regnized.

Between 2011, when the Prbyterian church thorized gay ordatn, and 2013, the latt year for which figur are available, 428 of the nomatn's church left for more nservative nomatns or dissolved, though some theologil nservativ have remaed as they ci how to move Fowler LaBerge, print of the nservative Prbyterian Lay Commtee, said the new fn was "an exprs repudiatn of the Bible" and approved "what God do not bls. He said the Fellowship's opposn to the amendment is " no way tend to be anti-gay, " but aims "wh huy" to uphold the tradnal Bible view of marriage. Although several Prottant nomatns have taken signifint steps toward regnizg same-sex relatnships, only one other major Christian group has endorsed gay marriage as Christian 2005, the 1.

"The Epispal Church, which blazed a trail 2003 by electg the first openly gay Anglin bishop, Gene Robson, do not have a formal posn on gay marriage, but allows bishops to ci whether their prits n officiate at the ceremoni. Epispalians will take up gay marriage at a natnal meetg Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri, which elimated barriers to gay ordatn 2009, tak a siar approach, allowg some discretn by clergy and ngregatns to officiate at same-sex ceremoni whout formally regnizg same-sex marriage as a Uned Methodist Church, the send-largt Prottant nomatn the U. S., bars "self-avowed practicg homosexuals" om ordatn and prohibs gay weddgs.

Many Methodist clergy have been performg gay marriag as a prott of church Rev. The Prbyterian Church (USA), the largt body of Prbyterians the untry, approved a change the wordg of s nstutn to allow gay and lbian weddgs wh the church, a move that threatens to ntue to spl the male Prottant 171 regnal prbyteri (lol learship bodi wh the PCUSA) have been votg on whether to change the wordg to ll marriage a ntract “between a woman and a man” to beg “between two people, tradnally a man and a woman. ”The vote amid a larger bate over whether gay marriage nflicts wh Scripture and would e more Prbyterian church to break relatns wh the PCUSA.

The formaly of Tuday’s cisn uld accelerate more other male nomatns, the PCUSA has grappled wh the issue as gay marriage has bee legal more stat. UPDATE: The Prbyterian Church falized s cisn to regnize gay marriage a vote Tuday night. By affirmg the right of mted gay upl to make life-long vows to one another, we are seekg to walk the Way of J, who stood wh the outst and proclaimed their full humany.

Unlike the Worldwi Anglin Communn, of which is a part, the Epispal Church do not nmn homosexualy. In 1976, both the Hoe of Deputi and Hoe of Bishops voted for a fully clive Epispal Church, statg, “homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim wh all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern and re of the church.