The high court of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has unequivocally barred non-celibate gay and lesbian clergy. According to the denomination's constitution, ministerial candidates in the PC(USA) are required to be in faithful heterosexual marriages or remain celibate. However, Presbyterians passed an "authoritative interpretation" of the constitution in 2006 that many saw as a compromise, allowing gay and lesbian candidates to declare a conscientious objection to the ordination standard. No such loosening is allowed, ruled the General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission, the 16-member high court of the PC(USA), on February 11. "We can now rest assured that our standards for ordination in the PC(USA) continue to reflect the clear teaching of Scripture and the plain meaning of our constitution," said a statement from Presbyterians for Renewal.
Answers in Genesis, which founded the $27 million Creation Museum in Kentucky last year, has launched a creation science journal online. Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, said submissions to Answers Research Journal will be peer-reviewed, but the journal's guidelines discourage asking non-creationists to conduct those reviews. The journal is needed because of academic bias in most scientific journals against creationists, Ham said. Some articles in the premiere issue are pseudonymous.
A New York state appeals court ruled in February that same-sex marriages performed outside of the state must be treated as legally valid. Patricia Martinez, the plaintiff in the case, married Lisa Ann Golden in Canada in 2004. She sued Monroe Community College in upstate New York in 2005 after the school refused to extend health-care benefits to her partner. The court ruled that the college must recognize Martinez's marriage, a decision that may provide a kind of legal counterweight to a 2006 ruling by New York's highest court approving a ban on gay marriage.
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Hmm. You might want to take a look in your Bible. Genesis 2. The birds of the air and the bests of the field were created on day 6 of Creation Week--the same day as Adam and Eve. The dinosaur "kind" was therefore in the same Garden of Eden as Adam, on the same day. ...Sounds like maybe you've been watching too much "science" fiction and not reading enough HIStory.
TrutoJC
Posted: March 20, 2008 7:56 PM
This is much tha sqame as I have been hearing for over 70 years. I am very tired of it Everyone knows those extinct creatures did roam the earth at one time. Complete mastadons have been excavated from frozen Arctic ice. But speculation of them seems so childishly fruitless. I could care less about Adam and Eve being aeound them. It does notchange my solid belief in Gods Holy Word.
louisquinze
Posted: March 28, 2008 2:59 AM
I think this debate is a wonderful way to detract from what Christians are supposed to be doing - loving people into the kingdom of God and bringing about the reign of God on 'earth as it is in heaven' - get with themain frame!!!!!!
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