Monday, May 03, 2004

Yaaarrrgggghhhh!

Don't they get it?


>>>Church court rules in favor of local pastor

By Denise Smith Amos
The Cincinnati Enquirer

A Presbyterian minister who married same-sex couples in his church won a major church court decision, which he said will ultimately allow Presbyterian Church USA ministers to perform same-sex weddings without fear of discipline.

Rev. Stephen Van Kuiken, who a year ago was rebuked and kicked out of the denomination for holding same-sex weddings at Mount Auburn Presbyterian, won an appeal on his conviction, he said this morning.

"A new era has dawned in the Presbyterian Church, a day for which we have waited and hoped," he said.

"We are making room at the table of Christ both for our gay brothers and lesbian sisters as well as for those with progressive Christian convictions. This is truly good news for the church."<<<

OK, so your church prohibits marrying homosexuals. A pastor goes ahead and openly does so anyway, flaunting it in your face and daring you to do anyting about it. You discipline him. An appeals court overturns that even though he is clearly practicing in opposition to Scripture and your own church rules.

Van Kuiken is right, a new era has dawned for the PCUSA, one in which God's Word is ignored, sin is embraced, perversion is made to seem natural, church law is ignored and souls are lost. Way to go!

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