Walnut Creek church considers breakoff over gay clergy issue

Dan82 · Jun 4, 2011

http://www.mercurynews.com/samesexmarriage/ci_18193004?nclick_check=1

With heads bowed in prayer one recent Sunday morning, those in the pews at Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church sang a hymn praising God for being "slow to chide and quick to bless."

Immediately following that service, most of the nearly 200 worshipers present stayed for a meeting to discuss an internal judicial action -- akin to a lawsuit against their own overseeing organization -- to legally block the ordination of a gay woman by the San Francisco Presbytery.

Walnut Creek Presbyterian's leadership views the ordination of openly gay clergy as "a distressing move away from the Bible as the only rule that dictates behaviors and actions," according to Pastor Morgan Murray.

The "judicial action" was launched by Walnut Creek Presbyterian, several other Presbyterian churches, including one in Concord and one in Boise, Idaho, and half a dozen Presbyterian church elders in the Bay Area. The case will be heard July 29 by a national Presbyterian Church (USA) tribunal at its national headquarters in Louisville, Ky...

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ANightDude · Jun 4, 2011

Isn't this the same church that Bobby Griffith attended (at first) in "Prayers for Bobby"?

Revan · Jun 4, 2011

Indeed it is. I believe it's where his funeral took place where they condemned him for being gay and "lost".

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