Now that pro-gay liberals in the Presbyterian Church (USA) have succeeded in their 30-year efforts to allow the ordination of gays, a small but influential group of conservative churches have decided to give up the fight to change the Book of Order back to the way it was since 1997 when the original ban was approved.
The original language required clergy to live “in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman, or chastity in singleness.” The new language requires clergy only to “submit joyfully to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in all aspects of life.”
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