Thursday, October 31, 2013

Hooray for Sticking It Out

Most Presbyterians support the new policy of ordaining persons who are in long-term, faithful same-sex relationships.  That's why the proposal got passed in General Assembly in 2010 and then ratified by 178 presbyteries.

Some have little patience with the conservatives who are now jumping ship, who feel that they are "forced out" of the PC(USA).

After all, these liberals stayed in the denomination for over thirty years while gay ordination was being debated, from 1979 to 2010.  They put up with all the stressful exchange of diatribes.

But the other side, as soon as things don't go their way, are gone?

Living in disagreement with your denomination is something liberals have done.  

Hooray for those conservatives who have chosen to stay and tough it out for a while in a denomination where theirs is a minority point of view.  

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