PCUSA: Three high-profile gay ordination requests await final decisions

By John H. Adams, The Layman
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Although a majority of presbyteries in the Presbyterian Church (USA) have voted to keep the “fidelity/chastity” requirements for church officers in the Book of Order, there remain three high-profile cases involving candidates who are open about their past or current relations with same-gender partners.

The three candidates for ministry of Word and Sacrament are Lisa Larges, a lesbian, in San Francisco, Scott Anderson, a homosexual in Wisconsin, and Paul Capetz, who says he does not currently have a homosexual partner but doesn’t believe G-6.0106b forbids him from having one. the rest