An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Wanna Know…..
…..one of the many reasons I quit attending the church my mother took me to for the majority of my youth?
Presbyterian court sides with pro-homosexual pastor
The highest court of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has found that a Northern California minister did not violate denominational law when she officiated at the weddings of two lesbian couples.
The ruling announced Tuesday by the Louisville, Kentucky-based court overturns a decision against Jane Spahr last year. A regional judicial committee had found Spahr guilty of misconduct and gave her a rebuke — the lightest possible punishment.
The church’s high court found that the ceremonies Spahr performed were not marriages, so she did not violate the church’s constitution. The panel reiterated the church’s position that Presbyterian ministers can bless same-sex unions as long as the ceremonies don’t too closely mimic traditional weddings.
Spahr, 65, of San Rafael, retired last year. She was the first minister of her faith to be tried for officiating the weddings of homosexual couples, and one of several Presbyterian ministers facing disciplinary action for similar offenses. Acting on a complaint brought by a minister in Washington state, the Presbytery of the Redwoods, which oversees 52 churches along the Pacific coast, brought the charges against Spahr in 2005 for marrying the couples from New York and California.
It stopped following the Gospel.
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It stopped following the Gospel.
Bullseye. That says it all.
Ahh. But you attended there so you must believe and practice every word of what they preached there. That’s the the argument of the day, right? A parishoner must be held to task for every word of every sermon?
Uh grumps…..they changed. They went outside the Word. I had enough sense to get up and walk away.