Article: Sex and the single Protestant: are Presbyterians on the brink of a split?(Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and homosexual ordination)

For a while this spring, it appeared as though a fragile peace might finally descend over the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). After battling for nearly two decades over whether homosexuals should be ordained in the 2.7 million-member mainline Protestant denomination, the church amended its Constitution to bar from leadership anyone--straight or gay--who is sexually active outside of marriage. The so-called Fidelity and Chastity Amendment was portrayed by its backers as a definitive and evenhanded solution to a seemingly intractable issue, one that has plagued not only Presbyterians but many of the nation's other mainline Christian denominations for years. A majority of the ...

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