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Episcopalians, Presbyterians to debate marriage equality

Ken Williams - SDGLN Editor in Chief
June 28th, 2012

Two prominent Protestant denominations will be debating marriage equality at national meetings, starting this weekend.

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly will meet in Pittsburgh from June 30 to July 7. Among the most contentious issues to be debated will be whether to conduct blessings for gay and lesbian couples in member churches.

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COMMENTARY: Presbyterian Church's ordination of gays is bittersweet

The Rev. Irene Monroe - SDGLN Contributor
October 21st, 2011

Before returning to New England for the second time, I served two African-American Presbyterian Churches. And during that time I never thought, two decades ago, that the entire church body would change its position on LGBTQ worshippers.

But a historic yet bittersweet moment happened on Oct. 8 in the Presbyterian Church (USA).

And the moment didn't happened without a long and arduous struggle against the church's ecclesiastical heterosexism.