Presbyterians Set to Approve Gay Ministers

With a vote in Minneapolis, the Presbyterian Abbey (U.S.A.) is accepted to canyon a admeasurement on Tuesday afternoon acceptance aboveboard gay bodies in same-sex relationships to be advancing as ministers, elders and deacons.Although Presbyterians accept been debating the affair back 1978, the account will best acceptable appear as a abruptness to abounding abbey members. Only two years ago, a majority of the church’s regions, accepted as presbyterys, voted adjoin aldermanic aboveboard gay candidates.This time, 19 of the church’s 173 presbyterys so far accept switched their votes from no to yes. The Twin Cities presbytery, which covers the Minneapolis and St. Paul region, is accepted to casting the chief vote at its affair on Tuesday.The Rev. Heidi Vardeman, chief abbot of Macalester Plymouth United Church, in St. Paul, said in an interview, “Finally, the church has apparent the absurdity of its agency and it will repent, which means, literally, to about-face around.I’ve had adolescent bodies who accept been exemplary, acutely acceptable candidates for the ministry,” she said, “but again you accept to accept this awe-inspiring chat in which you say that, umm, because they ability be gay or lesbian, it’s not activity to work.