Presbyterian Church
(USA) votes to formally recognize gay marriage and allow same-sex weddings
Presbyterians had been allowed to perform same-sex weddings
like this 2011 ceremony with approval from local officials, but now all members
will be eligible to host the ceremonies in states that have gay marriage.
BY Tobias Salinger
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 11:44 PM
Members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) have voted to make
the 1.8-million-member, 10,000-congregation denomination the largest Protestant
group to formally recognize gay marriage allow same-sex weddings.
The Presbytery of the Palisades in New Jersey cast the
necessary 86th vote Tuesday night to establish that a majority of the church’s
171 regional presbyteries now support an amendment to the church constitution
that redefines marriage, the
Associated Press reported.
“Marriage involves a unique commitment between two people,
traditionally a man and a woman, to love and support each other for the rest of
their lives,” the church’s Book of Order will read, effective June 21, according
to an announcement on the Presbyterian Church’s website.
Gradye Parsons, the stated clerk of the church’s General
Assembly, posted a video pledging that nothing in the amendment would compel
those members who do not approve of same-sex marriage from participating in the
weddings.
“The approval allows teaching elders wider discretion whose
wedding they may conduct and sessions wider discretion whose weddings they may
host,” Parsons
said. “That discretion could include same gender marriages in states
where that’s permitted.”
The
Assembly approved the language last summer, but activists who have
been pushing for the change for years had to sweat out the votes among the
church’s districts.
“So many families headed by LGBTQ couples have been waiting
for decades to enter this space created for their families within their church
communities,” Rev. Robin White, a leader of More Light Presbyterians, told AP.
Yet 41 of the regional bodies have voted to disapprove the
measure, according to AP. The church approved gay ordination in 2011 and 428
congregations had either left the fold or disbanded two years later, the outlet
noted.
One conservative leader, Carmen Fowler LaBerge of the
Presbyterian Lay Committee, called on Presbyterians to withhold donations from
the national church unless the old marriage definition is reinstated, AP
reported.
The Presbyterian Church (USA) boasts 10,000
congregations, like this one in Peoria, Ill.
The new rules represent “an express repudiation of the
Bible” and a positive vote for “what God does not bless,” LaBerge told AP.
But church leaders expressed hope that leaders from both
sides would work together.
“As a church, the Presbyterian Church (USA) has received
much grace from God and Jesus Christ,” Parsons said. “We should extend that
grace to each other in all gentleness as we live into this common chapter of
our life.”
Same-sex weddings
Clifford S.
Asness supported same-sex marriage
in New York, a leadership council member for the Robin Hood Foundation, and is a director at the International Rescue Committee.
Note: Daniel S. Och is a
director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
and a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Robert
C. Wright is a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital, and was the chairman for NBCUniversal.
Jeff
Zucker was the president & CEO for NBCUniversal,
an executive producer for the NBC
Nightly News, and is a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation.
Brian Williams
is an anchor (suspended) for the NBC
Nightly News, and a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation.
Tom
Brokaw was an anchor for the NBC
Nightly News, a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation, and is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.
Emma
Bloomberg was a senior planning officer for the Robin Hood Foundation, and is Michael
R. Bloomberg’s daughter.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, the New York (NY)
mayor, and is Emma Bloomberg’s
father.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Robin Hood Foundation, the Harlem
Children's Zone, the International
Rescue Committee, the Committee for
Economic Development, the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank).
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, Mark Schwartz was his senior adviser, and is
the founder of the Soros Fund Management.
Richard S. Fuld
Jr. was a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, and is a trustee at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
John
J. Mack was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, and is the chairman for the New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Maurice R.
Greenberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, is a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital, and an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.
ONE
Campaign is a partner with the International
Rescue Committee.
Michelle
Obama is an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, and was a lawyer at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Ronald O. Perelman
is a director at the ONE Campaign,
and a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Howard
S. Jonas was an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and is a trustee at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Roman Martinez IV
is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Andrea
Jung is a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital, and a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Ellen
R. Marram is a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital, and a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Donna
S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Barack
Obama’s signature policy initiative is Obamacare,
and was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP, and is an advocate for the ONE
Campaign,
Ronald O. Perelman
is a director at the ONE Campaign,
and a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.Commercial Club of Chicago, Members
Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Sue
L. Gin was a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a director at the Rush-Presbyterian-St.
Luke's Medical Center.
Susan
Crown is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, an executive committee member for the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, and her father is Lester Crown.
Lester
Crown is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, Susan Crown &
James S. Crown’s father, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, Lester Crown’s son, and a trustee at
the Aspen Institute (think tank).
David
H. Koch is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a
trustee at the New York-Presbyterian
Hospital.
Jeffrey W.
Greenberg is a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital, and was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Glenn
H. Hutchins is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a trustee at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
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Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Adebayo O.
Ogunlesi is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), and a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Raymond J. McGuire
is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank),
and a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Mark
Schwartz is a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital, was George
Soros senior adviser, and the president & CEO for Soros Fund Management.
George
Soros is the founder for the Soros
Fund Management, a director emeritus for Refugees International, Mark
Schwartz was his senior adviser, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Robin Hood Foundation, the International
Rescue Committee, Refugees
International, and the Millennium
Promise.
Clifford S.
Asness was a leadership council member for the Robin Hood Foundation, supported same-sex marriage in New York, and is a director at the International Rescue Committee.
Howard
S. Jonas was an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and is a trustee at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Roman Martinez IV
is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Constance J.
Milstein is a director emeritus for Refugees
International, and a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Stephen
Robert was a director at the Millennium
Promise, and is a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Stewart J.
Paperin is a director at the Millennium
Promise, and the president of the Soros
Economic Development Fund for the Open
Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and Doctors
Without Borders.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and the founder for the Soros Economic Development Fund.
Adebayo O.
Ogunlesi is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), and a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Raymond J. McGuire
is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank),
and a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Jolie/Pitt
Foundation was a funder for Doctors
Without Borders.
Angelina
Jolie is a co-founder for the Jolie/Pitt
Foundation, and was a director at the Millennium
Promise.
Jimmy
Carter was an honorary co-chairman for the Millennium Promise, and Supports
Gay Civil Marriage.
Jimmy Carter Supports Gay
Civil Marriage
Stephen
Robert was a director at the Millennium
Promise, and is a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital.
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