This week, the PCUSA ratified GA 10-A, removing the obstacles to the admission of openly gay or lesbian, partnered candidates to ordination or seminaries. Let’s be clear on this: the immediate implications are limited. National obstacles have been removed, but…
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Presbyterian Inclusion: Ratification Now Imminent
Since I last updated the status of the Presbyterian process for ratification of last year’s vote permitting the ordination of openly partnered and lesbian or gay clergy, prospects have brightened even more. There are now 16 regional presbyteries that have…
Presbyterian Inclusion: Ratification Looks Promising
Last year, the Presbyterian Church of the USA voted to approve changes in the criteria for ordination of clergy, in terms which do not discriminate against partnered gay or lesbian candidates. The resolution removes a paragraph which includes the requirement…
The GOP/ Evangelical Quiet Revolution on Gay Rights
The Washington Post has a useful analysis of what it calls The GOP’s quiet evolution on gay rights. This has obvious and fundamental importance for gay politics and (marriage equality in particular) in the US. It has wider significance because…
Are Evangelicals Embracing LGBT Inclusion?
For years, there has been evidence that major sections of the US Mainline Protestant churches, and Protestant denominations in Europe, have been substantially reconsidering their attitudes to same – sex relationships. The evangelical churches on the other hand, like the…
Chart of the Day: Religion and Gay Marriage
Last week, Pew Research reported on the latest update in their continuing series of surveys on American attitudes to same-sex marriage. The headline finding, that for the first time fewer than half the sample opposed gay marriage was widely reported,…
Gay Marriage: Coming (Soon?) to a Church Near You.
It is now widely recognized that the move to marriage equality is irreversible. From polling evidence, the trend is clear. Politically, candidates for office are increasingly recognizing the dangers of homophobic rhetoric, and some are starting to see the value…
Say It Again, Loud and Clear This Time: CATHOLICS SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE!
It feels like a stuck record to say so, but some bishops and the politicos who favour them, still aren’t getting the message, so we have to keep repeating it. Most US Catholics support gay marriage! Support is growing, and…
