Moderator retracts comment made at GA The Presbyterian Layman Monday, September 14, 1998  LOUISVILLE
– The Rev. Douglas W. Oldenburg, moderator of the 210th General
Assembly (1998), has issued a retraction of a statement he made during
the debate in Charlotte over the National Network of Presbyterian
College Women. Oldenburg said pro-life and gay and lesbian constituencies had demonstrated at previous GAs to express their pain. In a letter to Oldenburg, Presbyterians Pro-Life (PPL) Executive Director Terry Schlossberg said, “These statements are inaccurate. “In my nearly 12 years with PPL, we have never sought and never have been offered opportunity to ‘demonstrate’ at a meeting of the General Assembly. It is our hope to persuade Presbyterians by appeals to sound doctrine, logical argument, facts, and prayer. We regard clear and fair process to be beneficial to the church, and demonstrations such as we witnessed in connection with the NNPCW matter to be manipulative interference in the decision making process.” The full text of the retraction, reads: “In a statement I made to the 210th General Assembly and in subsequent correspondence, I said that previous General Assemblies have had demonstrations in plenary sessions by the pro-life and gay and lesbian constituencies expressing their pain. I am told that the pro-life constituency has not done so, and I apologize for my error.” |
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