Canada’s largest Protestant church elected its first openly gay moderator at its 41st General Council on Thursday.
After nearly eight hours of voting, the 350 members of the United Church of Canada selected Gary Paterson from a pool of 15 nominees, including three other openly gay candidates. When Paterson begins his three-year term as moderator on Aug. 18, he will become the first openly gay leader of a Christian denomination.
“Among mainline denominations, as far as I know this is probably a first,” Paterson told council members following the final vote. Read more
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Supreme patriarch: Christ. Let not hetero-sexism fall to the feminism, social liberation theology, nor homo-sexuality of Papists' and their sympathizers; whom want to corrupt by letter -- what is already corrupt in spirit -- in their proper physicality.
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