PCUSA: Minister who did gay wedding is in hot water

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

CARROLLWOOD — What began three years ago as a complaint about the marriage of a lesbian couple has put a Carrollwood Presbyterian pastor into the national spotlight.

It was 2005 when the Rev. Janet Edwards, a Presbyterian minister, married Nancy McConn and Brenda Cole in Pittsburgh. James C. Yearsley, who then served in Pittsburgh as well, learned of the ceremony in a newspaper interview Edwards had given.

"I was offended," said Yearsley, now the pastor of Village Presbyterian Church in Carrollwood Village. "What she did in marrying two people of the same sex was a complete violation of the constitution of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, and she knew that, but she intentionally violated the constitution." the rest