Religion and church should concern themselves with god and the spiritual, and not with men and how they fuck. The church belittles its own raison d'etre. Silly them...
On 06/07/2012, asfan <asfa...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Church of Scotland now ‘radically liberal’ says minister who quit over gay > clergy > By CRAIG BROWN > Published on Friday 6 July 2012 00:00 > > > > A FORMER Kirk minister has claimed the Church of Scotland has become > “radically liberal” and faces a “haemorrhaging” of evangelical membership > over the issue of ordination of openly gay clergy. > > > • Rev Ivor MacDonald cites induction of gay clergy and “radically liberal” > Church of Scotland as reason for leaving Kirk > • “[It is] clear that the denomination had rejected biblical teaching over > the whole of life” > > > The Rev Ivor MacDonald, formerly of Kilmuir and Stenscholl, on the Isle of > Skye, will today become the first Kirk minister who left over the divisive > issue of gay clergy to be inducted to a Free Church congregation. > > Speaking to The Scotsman about his reasons for leaving the Kirk, Mr > MacDonald said that when the Church’s General Assembly upheld the decision > by Queen’s Cross Church, in Aberdeen, to appoint openly gay minister Scott > Rennie, a point of “no going back” had been passed. > > “It became very clear that this wasn’t about homosexual practice or not, it > was about whether the Bible was authoritative in the Church,” he said. > > “In 2009, the decisions that were made in relation to this issue made it > clear that the denomination had rejected biblical teaching over the whole of > life.” > > He added that the 2011 Assembly ruling, stating that practising homosexuals > that were already in posts could be inducted into other charges, confirmed > that a “line had been crossed”. > > That resulted in him leaving the church in October last year. > > Mr MacDonald, 53, said that despite the Kirk’s insistence that no final > decision would be taken on gay ordination until after the 2013 Assembly, he > was “quite clear” that evangelicals had lost the debate already. > > Describing his departure from the Kirk as “heartbreaking”, Mr MacDonald said > the Kirk had become “inhospitable to evangelical belief” and that its > “radically liberal stance” would be unappealing to new ministers and result > in a “haemorrhaging” of evangelical members. > > He said that his induction into a Free Kirk congregation in Coatbridge would > be a “great relief” and offered a chance to move away from being part of an > “embattled minority trying to assert biblical norms”. > > Ordained into the Kirk in 1993, Mr MacDonald had previously worked as an > agricultural adviser with Scottish colleges. > A Church of Scotland spokesman said Mr MacDonald was entitled to his > opinion, but it did not reflect the views of the > membership of the Kirk. > > He said: “No decision has been made about the ordination of people in > same-sex relationships. That will be debated in the 2013 General Assembly > and no doubt a decision will be made at some point after that.” > > A Free Church of Scotland spokesman said: “We are delighted Reverend Ivor > MacDonald is to be inducted to Coatbridge.” > -- -- ADITYA BONDYOPADHYAY Development Sector Consultant Advocate (Regd. No. F-218/192 of 1997, Bar Council of W.Bengal, India) Website: http://adityabondyopadhyay.webs.com/ ================================ Notice to all recipients: Communication not intended for you but reaching you inadvertently needs to be treated as confidential and destroyed or deleted immediately. Use of such communication in a manner prejudicial to the interest of Aditya Bondyopadhyay and/or his principals, and/or his clients, and/or his agents respectively, may attract legal proceedings which may be of a civil or criminal nature. 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