Kirk facing 'silent rebellion' as gay ordination row intensifies
Traditionalists within Kirk sessions and presbyteries could move to block gay clergy by refusing to administer ordination, the clergy Aberdeen minister Rev Louis Kinsey suggested, as Rev David Randall of Ayrshire followed his father Rev David Randall senior of Logie St John's in Dundee in becoming the latest to say publicly that they will leave.
It follows three congregations in Edinburgh and five in the north of Scotland reported to have signalled discontent since May's decision.
About 10 congregations in total are understood to be in specific negotiations with the Kirk to leave over its struggle with gay ordination was brought to the fore after the appointment of openly gay Rev Scott Rennie to an Aberdeen church in 2009.
Rev Louis Kinsey, of St Columba's Church in Aberdeen, advocates unity in the Church but said: "It is almost like a form of corporate denial of the real state of affairs (to...
