{"id":49465,"date":"2015-04-20T21:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/penn_live_presbyterian_church_forcing_evangelicals_out_for_having_the_wrong\/"},"modified":"2015-04-20T21:30:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T21:30:06","slug":"penn_live_presbyterian_church_forcing_evangelicals_out_for_having_the_wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49465","title":{"rendered":"(Penn Live) Presbyterian Church forcing evangelicals out for having the &#34;wrong&#34; view of marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carmen Fowler LaBerge, president of the national Presbyterian Lay Committee, said that in the same way the Episcopal Church and the United Church of Christ became inhospitable environments for evangelicals to serve, the Presbyterian Church is becoming much the same way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are seeing the environment within the PCUSA change following the affirmation of this particular vote,&#8221; she says. &#8220;That environment is changing pretty rapidly. Presbyteries are becoming inhospitable to pastors who hold traditional views not only on this issue but on underlining issues related to the biblical authority of Jesus as the only way to salvation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While sexuality might be the presenting issue in this case, LaBerge argues that the real division is rooted in a theological cleansing &#8211; fueled by a growing intolerance toward traditional, biblical views.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/midstate\/index.ssf\/2015\/04\/presbyterian_church_gay_marria_1.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmen Fowler LaBerge, president of the national Presbyterian Lay Committee, said that in the same way the Episcopal Church and the United Church of Christ became inhospitable environments for evangelicals to serve, the Presbyterian Church is becoming much the same<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49465\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,42,66,168,98,154,417,376,647,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-presbyterian","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-departing-parishes","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}