In an unprecedented act of defiance, a California branch of the Presbyterian Church (USA) refused a ruling from a church court to rebuke a pastor who wed same-sex couples.
The Napa-based Presbytery of the Redwoods voted 74-18 on Tuesday (May 15) to instead praise the Rev. Janie Spahr, who wed 16 same-sex couples when gay marriage was legal in California in 2008.
Read it all and also note an LA Times article on this matter is there.
Ever notice when conservatives want to break the rules they are deposed, but when liberals do it they are praised? How do you spell A*N*A*R*C*H*Y?
Now that I think about it, conservatives don’t even have to break any rules to get deposed. Our mere existance is sufficient.
Please understand, this is the same type of presbytery that is having fits with other presbyteries and individual churches rejecting the liberals’ dumping of the “fidelity and chastity” requirements for pastors, elders and deacons in the last General Assembly, even though that change was premised on the argument that the matter of ordination standards would be reduced to a matter of “local option” and “freedom of conscience.”
Now, predictably, once they have gotten the nose of the Camel of Sexual Immorality into the tent, there is yelling and screaming that all churches must ordain homosexuals (and by implication, adulterers and fornicators as well). I honestly don’t see PCUSA surviving the next GA this summer.
Well, good on Canon Harmon for publicising it. A spotlight has to be shone on these issues so that Presbyterians and other Christians are made aware of what is happening. The liberals love to work quietly, in the dark, without scrutiny.