West-Park Presbyterian Church
New York, New York
September 1978
In harmony with the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church,
West-Park Church affirms the civil rights of all persons. Further, in
keeping with our General Assembly's guidelines, this community of faith
welcomes as members homosexual persons who both seek and have found
Christ's love. This local congregation will not select one particular
element from a person' total humanity as a basis for denying full
participation and service in the body of Chrsit. Nor will this community
of faith condemn or judge our brothers and sisters who declare their faith
in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and promise discipleship to Him. We
affirm that in meeting each other in Christian love, God's spirit frees us
all to live and grow, liberated from the oppression invoked upon us by
ourselves and others.
Within this context, West-Park Presbyterian Church reaches out to Christian
and non-Chrsitian homosexual persons with a ministry of support, caring and
openness -- a ministry in which the creative, liberating power of the Holy
Spirit rules and guides.
-- Adopted by the Session, September 1978.