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Published Date: 26 May 2009
BOTH sides in the Church of Scotland's row over gay ministers today accepted a compromise which will see a two-year ban on the ordination of practising homosexuals while a special commission looks at the issue.
After voting on Saturday to allow the openly gay Rev Scott Rennie to take up an appointment at an Aberdeen church, the Kirk's General Assembly last night agreed a moratorium on any more gay ministers until the nine-member commission reports in 2011.

The Rev Peter Macdonald of St George's West, Shandwick Place, a leading supporter of Mr Rennie, said:"We do have to pause, given the nature of the decision", while an opponent, who asked not to be named, called the decision "the best we could hope for".





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  • Last Updated: 26 May 2009 9:37 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Gay and Lesbian issues
 
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26/05/2009 13:11:49
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captainscarlet,

26/05/2009 22:58:08
I do not think that it matters what they do the church and the lgbt's have always been together. It is a difference of opinion.

The hetero church and lgbt's have victimised and discriminated against and coerced and dictated the opinions of many non religious and religious peoples in equal proportions.

Confess to all your wrongs/crimes against humanity and then let them all have their church, and leave the rest of us in peace who knew it was a lie in the first place.
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captainscarlet,

26/05/2009 22:59:14
and that is freedom of thought and expression.
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The Scot,

Singapore 29/05/2009 12:42:30
There is only one compromise here: Mr Rennie must abstain from homosexual acts if he is to remain a minister of the COS. Only that way will we see how strong his love for God is. Let that be the subject to his first sermon.
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Derek Williams,

Edinburgh 06/06/2009 09:33:45
#4 The Scot - Based on your edict, I presume you'd be quite comfortable with Mr Rennie being married and engaging in 'heterosexual acts' even though it be with a woman for whom he feels no attraction, and whose life, along with his, would be ruined in the process, loving a man who did not love her.

You speak with the vanity of those who know it all, as though there is only one possible understanding of scripture. Yet there are many different translations, and often extremely differing interpretations (Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide etc.), and any that use the word 'homosexual' in regards to orientation cannot be true translations, because this word and all it connotes was not heard of until 1868 when it first appeared in a German pamphlet. There was no word in Ancient Greek or Ancient Hebrew for a homosexual person. Moreover, nowhere does the Bible unmistakably spell out in genitally explicit sexual terms 'homosexual acts'. The Metropolitan Community Church has alternative views that are worthy of your investigation. Do some research, and don't swallow the first story you were told hook, line and sinker.

 

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