PCUSA’s Highest Commission to Hear Case of Lesbian Clergy Who Married Her Partner

By: American Decency Staff

In October 2009 Rev. McNeill, then a pastor at Central Presbyterian Church at Newark Presbytery, went to Massachusetts where she married her partner in a ceremony held at an Episcopal Church which was overseen by clergy from The Episcopal Church and the United Church of Christ.

 

At the time, PC(USA)'s Constitution did not allow for non-celibate homosexuals to have church leadership positions and at present the Constitution defines marriages as being between a man and a woman. As a result, The Presbytery of Newark charged McNeill with participating in a same-sex marriage and living in a relationship not condoned by the PC(USA) Constitution.

 

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