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United Church of Christ splitting over same-sex ?marriage?

By Alliance Alert

Jim Auchmutey writing in the Wall Street Journal: "The UCC is known as one of the more liberal Protestant denominations. Center Congregational's members, by contrast, are generally conservative. Over the years they sometimes groused about the liberal positions that the UCC adopted at its biennial General Synod, but there was no reason to get too upset. In the Congregational system, Synod votes are not necessarily binding on individual churches. Center's attitude changed in 2005 when the assembly, meeting in Atlanta, gave its blessing to gay marriage."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 22, 2009 (boomark / email).