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...Presbyterian liberals dismiss the hostile view of Leviticus and St. Paul toward homosexuality as "conditioned by time and place." But that is exactly why any sane man should dismiss the Presbyterian liberals. Their view is one conditioned by and limited to the last half of the 20th century and held by only a handful of ecclesiastical bureaucrats...
...order of votes received: Church Historian-Journalist Martin E. Marty, President Jimmy Carter, Ecumenical Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, Notre Dame's President Theodore Hesburgh, Oral Roberts, Campus Crusade's Bill Bright, Jesse Jackson, Anita Bryant and William P. Thompson, the chief executive of the United Presbyterian Church. Lest the survey be taken too seriously, George Burns, star of Oh, God!, got two votes...
This week an official task force designated to study the problem is proposing that the 2.6 million-member United Presbyterian Church become the first denomination to adopt a policy of toleration. The gist of its findings: there is no reason in principle to deny ordination to a "self-affirming practicing homosexual Christian," even one who is "open to" or involved in "full companionship or partnership with a person of the same sex." The new proposal would make it possible for any local congregation to employ a homosexual if it wished. The church's various presbyteries (regional associations) must approve...
...proposal is certain to produce a fire storm of argument among the not-so-United Presbyterians across the country. The final decision will rest with the church's annual General Assembly scheduled for May 16-24 in San Diego. What happens there is likely to influence the separate Southern Presbyterian church and the four U.S. Protestant churches (with 16 million members among them) that have also begun to address the question...
...Virginia Davidson, wife of a retired Kodak executive and mother of four. The members, selected to represent various views in the church, included an openly homosexual young alumnus of Yale Divinity School and Historical Theologian Richard Lovelace, an articulate conservative from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. With typical Presbyterian thoroughness, they prepared a 198-page report that examines psychological data, social currents and especially the 13 Bible passages that deal with homosexuality...