Tennessee church takes their banjos and leaves Presbyterian denomination over gays

Tenn. church to quit Presbyterians over gays
published Thursday, February 1, 2007

Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Tenn., has voted to leave the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) because of the congregation's theological differences with the national denomination.

The 2,000-member church voted overwhelmingly Jan. 28 to break away and join the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, which has fewer than 200 churches and a more conservative view of Scripture than the 2.3 million-member Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), like other mainline Protestant groups, has been struggling for years to reconcile members who disagree over how to interpret Scripture on many issues, including ordaining partnered gays.

In June of last year, a Presbyterian national assembly voted to give local congregations and regional bodies some leeway to install gay clergy and lay officers with same-sex partners.

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The Presbytery of East Tennessee will now consider whether the Signal Mountain church can take its building and property when it leaves. (AP)

More:
http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2007/02/01/3

including your silly comment about banjos.

Does playing a banjo make one a homphobe? Is the great Pete Seeger, champion of liberal causes since before most of us were born a homophobe?

Or is this just some more southern bashing?

If I wanted to make fun of them for being Southern, I would have said they took "All 12,000 members and their three teeth."

:rofl:

{As sung to the tune of "The Beverly Hillbillies"}

Gonna tell ya a little story
Bout this here Presbytery
They was all born together
In one family from Tennessee
Then one day they was shouting like a fool
And up from crowd came a blithering tool
Fundamental was the name...
Pointy head -- six toes.

Well first thing ya know
Fundamental had em' arguing everwhere
The kin folks said "let's move away from here"
They said, "Fundamental is the place we ought ta go"
So they loaded up the wagons
Heading for the land of "NO!"
No gays
No rights
No shoes.

Hey, I'm allowed. I live in TN. I know these people. I know from whence I speak!