Celibacy requirement to be scrapped
By Rob Quinn
Representatives of Presbyterian churches in the Twin Cities area vote to eliminate the celibacy requirement for gay and lesbian clergy. The Minnesota vote was the deciding one.
(AP Photo/Craig Lassig)
The Presbyterian Church USA has, after 33 years of debate, voted to allow the ordination of openly gay and lesbian ministers.
A majority of the church's 173 governing bodies nationwide voted to scrap a requirement for clergy to live in "fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness," clearing the way for the ordination of gay ministers, elders, and deacons, reports Reuters.
Regional church bodies will be allowed to make their own decisions on the issue.
Some 19 of the church's regional bodies that voted against allowing openly gay clergy last time the church put the issue to the vote changed their votes this time around.
"I finally decided at the age of 63 that it is inevitable," a church elder in California tells the Los Angeles Times.
"I think it's like letting black people come to white churches, or letting women become ministers. It's inevitable."
1 comments:
Nothing new here with the Presbyterian Church, men and women have been sinning since the beginning of time. This is just another group of people acting out their rebellion against God and circumventing His commands as many others have done.
The church body has overthrown God as the head of their church so that they themselves will now become the new head of the church to act out their unfaithfulness, and disobedience.
Not all will enter into heaven, but only those who do the will of God.
David
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