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cbayer

(146,218 posts)
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 09:49 AM Jun 2014

Presbyterian Church Votes To Allow Gay Marriages

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/19/presbyterian-church-gay-marriage_n_5512756.html

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Posted: 06/19/2014 5:15 pm EDT Updated: 06/20/2014 1:59 am


Gay marriage supporter Kara Speltz, center, of Oakland, Calif., holds hands with other supporters after the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church on Friday, July 9, 2010 voted in Minneapolis not to reconsider a motion seeking to redefine the definition of marriage. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) | ASSOCIATED PRESS


In a monumental move, the nation's largest Presbyterian denomination voted Thursday to change its definition of marriage and allow its pastors to officiate same-sex ceremonies in states where gay marriage is legal.

By a vote of 429-175, leaders of the 1.76 million-member Presbyterian Church (USA) voted during the biennial General Assembly in Detroit to change the denomination's Book of Order to describe marriage as being between "two people."

The decision opens a path toward gay marriage across the denomination's 10,000 churches.

A majority of the church's 172 regional bodies, called Presbyteries, must now approve the decision before it's official, a process that can take up to a year. But after years of failed efforts to get the church to approve gay marriages, LGBT activists and pastors said they were optimistic.

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Presbyterian Church Votes To Allow Gay Marriages (Original Post) cbayer Jun 2014 OP
Very good news. hrmjustin Jun 2014 #1
Congratulations Presby folk oldandhappy Jun 2014 #2
There may actually be a schism in the Methodist church over this issue. cbayer Jun 2014 #3
Baptists split over slavery before the civil war, Htom Sirveaux Jun 2014 #4

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
2. Congratulations Presby folk
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:11 AM
Jun 2014

I think the Methodists are still defrocking their pastors who participate in equal marriage. Hope the slog thru the regional bodies will go well.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
3. There may actually be a schism in the Methodist church over this issue.
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:05 PM
Jun 2014

Which may not be such a bad thing.

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