Church of Scotland inducts first gay minister in new post

[Dale_M]

This news was a surprise to me (but then, being in the US, most news from Scotland takes me by surprise )

THE gay lover and former wife of a homosexual minister who almost caused a schism in the Church of Scotland will tonight attend the service to mark his controversial appointment to a new post.

The Rev Scott Rennie, 37, will be inducted at Aberdeen’s Queen’s Cross Church where he will become the first openly-gay preacher in the Kirk to minister to a congregation.

He should have taken up his appointment in January, but the furore surrounding the move came close to creating a devastating split in the Kirk.

More than 12,000 people, including over 200 serving Church of Scotland ministers, 5,000 Kirk members and more than 700 ministers from Protestant and Catholic churches in Britain and Ireland, signed an online petition opposing the appointment, which was approved by 326 votes to 267 at a stormy meeting of the General Assembly in Edinburgh.

The Assembly also introduced a two-year ban on the ordination of homosexual ministers, while a commission investigates the induction and ordination of active homosexuals in the ministry.

news.scotsman.com/scotland/Kirk-looks-to-end-gay.5425709.jp

Over the weekend an evangelist nailed a board to the church door which charged that the church had been turned into “a den of iniquity.”
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[Cracker_Mom]

This news was a surprise to me (but then, being in the US, most news from Scotland takes me by surprise )

news.scotsman.com/scotland/Kirk-looks-to-end-gay.5425709.jp

Over the weekend an evangelist nailed a board to the church door which charged that the church had been turned into “a den of iniquity.”
pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1295896?UserKey=

Scotland has been going downhill for a long time, sad to say…It’s an incredibly beautiful place, great history,wonderfully friendly people, lovely music & culture.Politically, though, it’s becoming the Kremlin on the North Sea.