Moderator claims to be like ‘George Washington’ The Layman Volume 35, Number 2 Posted April 8, 2002 LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Moderator Jack B. Rogers says he once likened himself to Paul Revere, but now he says he believes he’s more like George Washington. During his report to the executive committee of the General Assembly Council on Jan. 29, Rogers explained the Revere-Washington metaphor: “My youngest son … told me, ‘You spent the fall being Paul Revere, saying, “The bad guys are coming! The bad guys are coming!” You were right, but the church doesn’t need Paul Revere, it needs George Washington.’” During the first half of his tenure as moderator, Rogers aggressively attacked the Confessing Church Movement and the Presbyterian Lay Committee. He told the council, having learned that “I had to get my own emotions under control,” he is focusing on the positive things he has experienced in the PCUSA.

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