| | Boston.com / News / Local / Conn. / Pennsylvania Presbyterian church cuts ties with 10 presbyteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | A conservative Presbyterian church voted to sever ties with regional governing bodies in Connecticut and seven other states, saying it is frustrated that some church leaders have repeatedly tried to overturn a church law that bans gay clergy. |
 | | The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) added a provision in church law in 1997 that requires all clergy and lay officers to observe fidelity in heterosexual marriage or "chastity in singleness." Liberal church officials have since lost two nationwide referendums to repeal that law, which they continue to resist. |
 | | The church's parishioners, elders and pastor will not "acknowledge any sympathy for, nor shall we communicate any compromise for reconciliation with the offending presbyteries or act through any third party, except through private prayer conducted in a place apart from them," said the resolution passed by the church's board of elders. |
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