Quickie Link [1]: 'Sinful' Church of Scotland Told It Must Accept Gays in its ranks [2]

By : vanrozenheim on Apr 25, 2007 - 11:10 PM
Religion [3]
(UK) - An influential group of ministers in Scotland's largest Protestant church has said that its clergy and congregations have been "sinfully" intolerant of gays and lesbians in its ranks. In a report on homosexuality, a working party has urged its 520,000 members to accept that gay and lesbian Christians have a right to serve in the church, as long as they are celibate. Callum Phillips, from the gay rights pressure group Stonewall Scotland, said the report's ambivalence on active homosexuality was a cop-out.

Note: Read full article on Guardian [4]
Links
  [1] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=5&lead=1
  [2] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1066&lead=1
  [3] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=&topic=9&lead=1
  [4] http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,,2064872,00.html