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: Legal Pad | LAPresbyterian court rules Spahr violated faith constitution
By Richard Binder
A Presbyterian church court in Napa ruled today that although the Rev. Dr. Jane Adams Spahr did not disrupt the "peace, unity and purity of the church" by performing more than a dozen same-sex marriages during the brief period when gay marriage was legal in California, she did violate the faith's constitution and her ordination vows.
Spahr's defense team said during the trial that although the faith's constitution strictly defines marriage as being between a man and a woman, there is no explicit prohibition on same-sex marriage. The panel disagreed.
The two-page decision, however, did praise Spahr for her ministry to gays and lesbians and called upon the church "to reexamine our own fear and ignorance that continues to reject the inclusiveness of the gospel of Jesus Christ."
Spahr says she will appeal.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on August 27, 2010 (boomark / email).
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