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...Diego decree, approved by a 12-to-l ratio, states that homosexual behavior is always wrong. Given that premise, the conclusion is obvious. The Presbyterians could no more ordain openly practicing homosexuals than they could accept those who continually advocate or indulge in any other life-style that the church regards as sinful. The church thus rejected a liberal policy that had been proposed by a special task force. But the new document says that homosexuality should not be singled out as any worse a sin than pride, greed or adultery, and it denounces "homophobia" (hatred and fear of homosexuals...
...Diego decision will undoubtedly add to the caution in other Protestant denominations now struggling with the problem. The Presbyterians' own perplexity is far from over. The statement fell short of ordering presbyteries not to ordain, and last week the 30-year-old Silver said that he hopes to arrange a call to an experimental ministry in Manhattan...
...women to become members of the clergy but few statistics. Last week, however, the National Council of Churches reported that an estimated 10,470 women now have full ministerial credentials. They make up 4% of the clergy in the 76 U.S. church bodies (out of 163 surveyed) that ordain both sexes...
Conservative Episcopalians angered by their denomination's decision to ordain women as priests have been quitting the Mother Church to form their own "Anglican Church of North America." Last week members of Good Shepherd, the second oldest Episcopal church in Columbia, S.C., voted 104 to 48 to join the schism. And where will the separatists hold services? At the Young Women's Christian Association in downtown Columbia, that's where. "Maybe this is God's way of underscoring the fact that this is not an antifeminist movement," said Irvin D. Parker, one of the new dissidents...
...tolerant view of the dissidents. They passed a freedom-of-conscience clause specifying that no one should be "coerced or penalized in any manner" for refusing to recognize women priests. In a separate statement, they gave the same freedom to Allin, who indicated that he would not personally ordain a woman priest or receive Communion from...