Q: What are your thoughts on gay clergy and same-sex marriages, as the issue continues to rage within other denominations?<\/p>\n
A: That\u2019s one of the real challenges of our time. The church is not \u201d\u00a6 we don\u2019t know. We have not made a decision about that. It\u2019s something we\u2019re still praying about, and that\u2019s frustrating for some people. There are people who are frustrated that we are talking about this at all; they wish it would go away. There are others who wish we would get moving, that it\u2019s something we shouldn\u2019t be dragging our feet about. It\u2019s a difficult, thorny issue.<\/p>\n
We do have a diversity of theological positions in the church, which is the nature of our faith \u201d\u201c that people have different ideas that are not lightly held. When they disagree \u201d\u00a6 what do you do?….<\/p>\n