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So this response I had to a facebook post for violating community guidelines. Try to reverse engineer the algorithm.

I’m sorry, I’ve been meaning to respond but haven’t had the time. The fact is that you are wrong about the “split” of the Presbyterian Church being about homosexuality. That is the narrative that has been spun by outsiders wanting to manipulate the perceptions of the public.

The fact is that this separation was a long time coming. I was an elder in the church as a high school student in the mid 90’s. The elders sat for hours and listened to tapes of things coming out of the national meeting of the Presbytery. They were acknowledging/praying to other gods and worshiping human women. It was eye/ear-opening and completely antithetical to Biblical doctrine. We decided at that time that we would continue/attempt to fly under the radar and continue to preach the Gospel of Christ and Christ alone. But we also agreed at that time that there may come a day when we’d need to wash our hands of the Presbyterian church label. If you can remember the culture at the time, homosexuality wasn’t even a blip on anyone’s radar.

Many years later and after a couple of pastoral changes the Presbytery decided they were going to take local control away for pastoral selection. Homosexuality may have been the cultural/mass media topic of the day but leaders of the church decided it was time to separate as to not accept the control and the apostacy of national church.

If they could have just changed the signs – all would have been fine. The Presbytery would not allow that.

Those that had attended weekly in the same pew for 30, 40, 50 years were understandably attached to the building, the stained glass, the organ, the memories. They believed, and likely so, that it wouldn’t change their devotion to Christ but that was the place they help dear for worship. Most who stayed were not in leadership and of the older generation – they had no idea nor could even be expected to imagine the internal upper level cultural shift that had been taking place for, obviously, well over a decade.

For the record, those at that time that stayed and those that formed a new church agreed on homosexuality.  It is completely false to say that is the reason for the split.  Logically, how could it be?  It makes a juicy story but reality is more bland. 

In your time in youth group – do you ever remember those adult youth leaders (many elders in that church) focusing or even discussing homosexuality?    

Well…