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...attended the United Presbyterian General Assembly [June 5], where I served as a seminary assistant. It is my hope that one day we shall come to see the issue of ordaining homosexual persons as a nonissue. It is my hope that presbyteries will one day consider the whole of each candidate, looking first to the gifts each candidate seeks to bring to the ministry...
...Presbyterian statement also endorses homosexual rights legislation, even while requiring discrimination within the church. Some liberals found this inconsistent, but the rationale is that secular law need not follow the dictates of religious teachings. Significantly, the document declares that all sexual relations ought to occur only within heterosexual marriage. This signals a retreat from the so-called New Morality by the denomination that published Joseph Fletcher's influential Situation Ethics in 1966 and four years later came close to embracing such theories officially...
...practical terms, the Presbyterian policy was partly based on the delegates' unspoken perception that acceptance of homosexual practice as an alternate Christian life-style might cause rebellion among rank-and-file members of the church. During the political maneuvering, the church's liberal patriarchs were silent for the most part, and its conservative Evangelicals launched their most effective campaign in a generation...
While the United Presbyterian Church is the first U.S. denomination to hold a full-dress debate about having homosexuals in the clergy, five other major Protestant denominations are confronting the problem...
...Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (878,000 members). Last year the General Assembly of the United Presbyterians' Southeastern sister church decided that homosexuality "falls short of God's plan." It shied away from a stronger condemnation, though, and approved a long-range study. A bill before the upcoming June 9-16 assembly in Shreveport, La., would repudiate homosexual activity and ban "unrepentant homosexuals" both from lay offices and the clergy. > Episcopal Church (2,882,000 members). A commission is studying the issue in preparation for next year's General Convention. But the furor last year over...