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New Anti-Gay Presbyterian Denomination: Cowardly Lions
http://johnshore.com/2012/01/20/new-anti-gay-presbyterian-denomination-cowardly-lions/As you may know, this past summer the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) decided to allow the ordination of gay clergy.
Yesterday, a new Presbyterian denomination was born: the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians—or, for short, ECO (as opposed to echo, which is a hollow, after-the-fact, ever-diminishing noise).
ECO was formed by pastors and laypeople in response to PCUSA’s decision to join the 21st century. They’re against gay people being ordained as ministers, and so started their own sub-denomination wherein such a thing would be prohibited.
And that’s fair enough. If they want to take their ball and go play with themselves in the corner, that’s certainly their right.
