This same General Assembly also sent to the presbyteries an amendment definitively banning same-sex holy union services. Have we become like the proverbial child, picking a scab, and wondering why the wound does not heal? Soon the interest groups will begin to plan strategies of support or opposition to this amendment. The strategies will include raising funds, developing arguments, producing literature and vilifying the respective...
A Commitment to Unity
The 212th General Assembly affirmed the fragile unity of our denomination by rejecting one of the Beaver-Butler overtures and by delaying for one more year consideration of the overtures dealing with sexuality and ordination. One can infer from their decisions the belief that Presbyterians are neither ready to divide the denomination nor to continue debating the issues surrounding sexuality and ordination.
