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Gay Man's Ordination Restored In Pc(usa)

#1 User is offline   mystictrek

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Posted 30 January 2008 - 01:50 PM

+ There has been a huge breakthrough in the Presbyterian Church (USA) which has closed the door of ordination to openly gays and lesbians in recent years. The Witherspoon Society offers "Openly gay theologian Paul Capetz restored to ministry of word and sacrament" by Doug King.

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Posted 31 January 2008 - 10:30 PM

View Postmystictrek, on Jan 30 2008, 01:50 PM, said:

+ There has been a huge breakthrough in the Presbyterian Church (USA) which has closed the door of ordination to openly gays and lesbians in recent years. The Witherspoon Society offers "Openly gay theologian Paul Capetz restored to ministry of word and sacrament" by Doug King.

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Thats great news! Thanks for sharing, John :)
Peace, love, and God bless,
McKenna

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Posted 01 February 2008 - 02:38 PM

This is great news. Thanks for letting us know. :)

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Posted 01 February 2008 - 11:34 PM

I'm pleased that at least one presbytery has the courage and foresight to take a stand for just treatment of all clergy. But the struggle is far from over as far as the denomination is concerned.
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Posted 10 February 2008 - 01:13 AM

I'm glad to see someone doing what is right.

As far as I'm concerned, let the denominations split. This issue is as important as slavery was less than 200 years ago and if you have to walk away in order to do what is right, then go for it.
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Posted 25 February 2008 - 10:41 AM

Evidently this did not last very long. Can anyone "in the know" give an update? How about an opinion on a possible denominational split?
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Posted 25 February 2008 - 08:30 PM

I'm not in the know but what I do know is that denominations will do everything they can not to split because it is costly. They lose support of money. They are better off having some disagreements (agreeing to disagree) and staying together. One of the things I like about the UCC is that we are congregational so we have huge diversity. It helps protect the denomination from split while allowing people/groups to still express themselves honestly and openly.
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Posted 28 February 2008 - 02:42 PM

View PostDavid, on Feb 25 2008, 09:41 AM, said:

Evidently this did not last very long. Can anyone "in the know" give an update? How about an opinion on a possible denominational split?


The recent GAPJC decisions have pretty much rendered this null, along with Larges in SF. Its unfortunate really.

As sad as I am about a possible split in my denomination, it seems that one outcome of folks leaving could be the sooner-rather-than-later ordination of our GLBT sisters and brothers.
Landon Whitsitt
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