PCUSA to try again on partnered gay clergy, but reject same-sex marriage: At the biennial General Assembly
In a familiar routine, mainline Presbyterians at their biennial General Assembly voted 373-323 to lift a ban on partnered gay clergy, sending the proposed change for the fourth time in nearly a dozen years to the denomination’s 173 regional presbyteries for ratification.
The regional bodies in the 2.07-million-member Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) must vote in the coming year on whether to substitute a measure that would strip any mention of sexuality from ordination requirements for elders, deacons and pastors.