"In the long run however, I believe that we have more integrity as a denomination if we just say ‘we ordain women.' And if you can’t live within a system that ordains women, then there are a lot of denominations, and perhaps this isn’t the one for you."

We do however believe that this attempt to extend benefits is being done to declare same gender domestic partners de facto the same as spouses within a marriage of one man and one woman, and is part of a larger attempt to get the church to accept what God in the Scriptures has clearly stated is sin.

The Midway Session believes that the answer to Question 17 of the Larger Catechism, “How did God create man?” is, as the 40th General Assembly declared, “sufficiently clear that Adam and Eve were real, historical human beings directly created by God.”

Five years ago, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America took issue with an action of Northern California Presbytery and Philadelphia Presbytery in a matter related to deaconesses. The result was two years of debate about whether or not we should study the issue, and the PCA said that it did not want to do so.

The General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission decision says that there is no clear, discernible standard in God’s Word upon which the entire denomination can be held to account. Each ordaining body may decide for itself those standards, on a case by case basis, when faced with an ordinand.

Firstly it means that we could really do without yet another Presbyterian denomination in Scotland. Presbyterians are brilliant at speaking about church unity and using lots of fine sounding words. But boy are we good at setting up new denominations in the name of unity! Moving away from Scotland I was astounded to read about yet another Presbyterian denomination being set up in the

To make it easier for you to compare the resolution that was submitted to the one that was adopted, I have reproduced them both below. Hopefully, this will help clear up some confusion and prevent further misrepresentation of what happened in New Orleans regarding the "sinner's prayer" resolution.

McKissic, who is black, said it was "an unfair comparison" for gays to equate same-sex marriage with civil rights because there is not incontrovertible scientific evidence that homosexuality is an innate characteristic, like skin color. "They're equating their sin with my skin," he said

Since the delegates (called messengers) voted by a show of ballot, no official count was taken. Baptist Press reported that "perhaps 10-20 percent of messengers voted against it." One delegate said he thought the percentage was more than that—perhaps as high as 40 percent.

"This opportunity that stands before us just gives us as church planters and people outside of the South an opportunity to build bridges to share Jesus," Harvie told messengers. "As a planter and as a person living outside the South, I beg you as Southern Baptists to help us to continue to build bridges to share Jesus."