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According to a recent article in World, a major American denomination, could soon make affirming LGBTQ ideology

mandatory for clergy. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States

of America or PCUSA voted nearly 2-1 to effectively

require candidates for ministry to endorse homosexuality and related practices if they wish

to be ordained.

Though the motion must still be approved by various presbyatories across the nation,

given the strong showing at the national level and the denominations already high marks from pro-Lg LGBTQ groups it will likely be made official.

As one of the more theologically liberal reform groups, the PCUSA has been drifting in this direction

for some time.

More remarkable, however, is just how quickly

and thoroughly this official position of the denomination has been reversed. In the 1970s,

after an openly gay man-sault ordination, the PCUSA launched a two-year task force to study the issue.

It concluded, finally, in less than solid fashion, that homosexuals should not be ordained to the ministry.

But now, in the name of inclusivity and diversity,

that very same group will require ministers

to reject clear Christian teaching on this instead.

Mark Twain famously said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does often rhyme.

In the late 1800s, Dr. Charles Briggs, a Presbyterian professor of theology at Union Seminary in New York was brought up on

heresy charges for teaching what's known as higher criticism of the Bible, doubting scriptural

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