“Following Jesus While Rejecting the Bible? Yet Another Tragedy in Mainline Protestantism”
Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has a column on the Presbyterian Church USA decision.
Category: Gender & sexuality
“The Moral Awakening of Mainstream Christianity”
The Rev. Janet Edwards, a Presbyterian minister who underwent a church trial for conducting a marriage ceremony for two women, has a Huffington Post column on the gay ordination policy.
“The Road to Gay Ordination in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)”
An essay in Christianity Today by S. Donald Fortson III, professor of church history and practical theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, N.C., looking at the long history of this issue in Christianity.
“PC(USA) relaxes constitutional prohibition of gay and lesbian ordination”
Read the May 11, 2011, Presbyterian News Service story on the vote and its implications.
“Renewal Groups Strategize after the PC(USA) Drops Celibacy Clause for Gay Clergy”
A story in the July 2011 issue of Christianity Today.
“Minister who presided at same-sex union gets 20-day suspension”
A Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article about Rev. Amy DeLong’s punishment.
“Lesbian minister found guilty of presiding over same-sex union”
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story about the verdict in Rev. Amy DeLong’s trial.
Robert Rector
Robert Rector is a senior research fellow for domestic policy studies at the Heritage Foundation. He says abstinence is the only solution to teen pregnancy.
Leslee Unruh
Founder and president of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, based in Sioux Falls, S.D.