Pastor Refiles Complaint Against Lesbian 'Marriage' Presider
By The Associated Press
Sun, Mar. 04 2007

PITTSBURGH - A Presbyterian minister has refiled a complaint against a Pittsburgh cleric who married a lesbian couple, a church charge stemming from the original complaint having been dismissed last year on a technicality.

The Rev. James Yearsley, 55, pastored a church in the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills when he filed his original complaint in 2005 against the Rev. Janet Edwards. Yearsley, now a pastor of Village Presbyterian Church in Tampa, Fla., said he has been joined by 14 pastors and elders in the new complaint.

"We are a church with a clear constitution and the process works," Yearsley told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "We need to allow it the opportunity to work." the rest