Minister targeted for performing legal gay marriages

[WillParkinson]

Minister targeted for performing legal gay marriages

During the few months California legally recognized gay marriage, the Rev. Dr. Jane Spahr officiated at 16 weddings for gay couples. Now, the minister is facing charges from within the Presbyterian Church.

Spahr has been an ordained Presbyterian minister for 36 years and she led worship for gay Presbyterians in San Francisco until she retired in 2007. The Redwoods Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will put Spahr on trail August 24, causing an unprecedented religious interference with legal marriage. She faces lifelong suspension of her ministerial duties.

This marks the second time in four years the PCUSA will “press charges” against Spahr. The minister was acquitted two years ago by the church after performing gay marriages; according to the church’s Supreme Judicial Council she did not violate denominational law because they were not real marriages.

http://www.365gay.com/news/minister-targeted-for-performing-legal-gay-marriages/

[qb]

1. "Pretend" marriages are okay, but not legal ones? Do these asshats have any idea

how ridiculous they sound?

[joeybee12]

2. Hey, I didn't realize presbyterians were such assholes...

..I always thoguht of them as one of the saner denominations.

[MineralMan]

3. They used to be sane. But the denomination splintered into multiple

divisions. All are still calling themselves Presbyterians.

It's hard to keep things straight these days.

[joeybee12]

4. Kind of like the Anglican Church, I guess...n/t