Presbyterian Church USA narrowly rejects pro-gay proposal to redefine marriage to 2 people
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) narrowly rejected a proposal to revise the traditional definition of marriage on Friday, a year after it struck down a barrier to ordaining gays.
The Presbyterian General Assembly, meeting in Pittsburgh, voted 338-308 against changing how marriage was defined in the church constitution from a "civil contract between a woman and a man" to a "covenant between two people." The assembly also rejected measures that would have affirmed a traditional definition of marriage or sought more theological study of the issue.
Other mainline Protestant churches have approved gay ordination or have permitted individual congregations to celebrate same-sex unions in recent years. The U.S. Episcopal Church, which is holding its national convention through next week in Indianapolis, will consider official prayers for blessing same-sex unions. However, only one major Protestant...
Don, any church that does that should be considered anti-Christian and an anathema to God such as the United Church of Christ (Is that church misnamed!)
Matthew 19 3 And some Pharisees came to Him, testing Him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause at all?" 4 And He answered and said, "Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, 5 and said, 'FOR THIS CAUSE A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, AND SHALL CLEAVE TO HIS WIFE; AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH'? 6 "Consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."---NASB
Jesus support for the literal interpretation of Genesis, his support for the normal married state, and his attack on divorce, all stated in these few verses show that mainline churches are like the church of Sardis,
Revelation 3:1 "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars, says this: 'I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.---NASB.
Perhaps they should re-read the minutes. The issue is to be studied and officially determined in two years at the next GA. It was not defeated. We can only hope that the committee studying it is instilled with the fear of God or they will likely return the same liberal verdict they did on homosexual ordination.
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Rev. Colin Mercer | 11/19/2012
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maybe he's been to the jesuit subterfuge college to learn how..."
