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| Editor's note regarding "A Call to Sabbatical" | |
| Editor's
note: The Presbyterian Layman has sent the following to each of
the signers of "A Call to Sabbatical in the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.). Their responses will be posted as they are received. "A Call to Sabbatical in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)" is being widely distributed across the denomination. Your answers to the following questions will help the church understand the meaning that each of its signatories assigns to several key phrases. 1. In your appeal to Presbyterians to "honor and respect our Constitution," what was the signatories' rationale for omitting the word "obey?" 2. In your appeal to Presbyterians to "resist the inclination to provoke or initiate judicial confrontation" do you mean to imply that Presbyterians who witness a violation of the Constitution, e.g. a session's ordination of a self-affirming, practicing homosexual, are hereby constrained by the language of the appeal not to file a judicial complaint against that violation? 3. If one were to interpret this appeal as calling for a "stay of enforcement" regarding Book of Order G-6.0106b, do you believe that this would constitute a fair interpretation? 4. If this "sabbatical" becomes the standard for the PCUSA, what is the remaining significance of G-6.0106b? |
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| signers respond to The Presbyterian Layman's questions | |
| Press release from the Office of the General Assembly | |
| A brief analysis of "A Call to Sabbatical" by Robert P. Mills | |
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