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The Momentum Continues! Twin Cities Presbytery overwhelmingly sends a delete-B overture to General Assembly |
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Wednesday, September 14 2005 @ 09:54 AM
9/16/05: edited to correct a minor error in reported vote counts.
In the first presbytery vote on a delete-B overture since the PCUSA's
Theological Task Force released its widely-criticized
report, the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area voted overwhelmingly on September 13 to send a delete-B overture to the 2006 General Assembly. The vote was 103 in favor, 39 opposed (73% in favor) on the delete-B overture, and 101 in favor, 41 opposed on the parallel overture to delete the PCUSA's discriminatory "authoritative interpretation" from the 1970's.
The landslide vote for equality represents a major positive shift within this presbytery since 2003, when the presbytery voted 123 to 93 to take no action on a proposal to send a similar overture to General Assembly in 2004. Coverage of the 2003 no-action vote and some of the wounds that it caused within the presbytery is available in a
Witherspoon Society article online in the Witherspoon archives.
Our thanks go out to all who worked over many months in the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area to make the overture a reality. Members and leaders at More Light church
St. Luke Presbyterian were instrumental in this effort.
This vote brings the known count of delete-B overtures sent by presbyteries to GA2006 to six. For information about how you can work within your presbytery to send a delete-B to next year's General Assembly, see MLP's online
2006 General Assembly Overture FAQ. |
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