Presbyterian Church (USA): No Actively Gay Pastors
Close vote at July General Assembly maintains sexuality standards.
By Kevin Eckstrom, Religion News Service, in Richmond | posted 8/01/2004 12:00AM
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Delegates also directed the church's pensions agency to explore whether the denomination should offer domestic partnership benefits to gay employees. A recommendation is expected at the next assembly in 2006.
In other business, delegates re-elected their highest officer, Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick, to a third four-year term. Kirkpatrick easily fended off a challenge from three evangelical opponents who accused him of allowing liberals to flout church law.
"Dissent is to be honored, but disobedience is not," Kirkpatrick said in answering questions from delegates.
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See also today's opinion piece on another resolution passed at the General Assembly:
Christianity Today earlier previewed the General Assembly.
For more on the PCUSA General Assembly, see the official Presbyterian News Service, the conservative The Layman, Presbyterians for Renewal (along with the Berkley Blog, from PFR Issues Ministries Director Jim Berkley), and The Presbyterian Outlook,
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