Ruling offers hope to gay Presbyterians.Ruling offers hope to gay Presbyterians A gay elder's election to the governing board Noun 1. governing board - a board that manages the affairs of an institution board - a committee having supervisory powers; "the board has seven members" of a Presbyterian church in Stamford, Conn., has been upheld by a church court, which rejected a charge that the man's homosexuality homosexuality, a term created by 19th cent. theorists to describe a sexual and emotional interest in members of one's own sex. Today a person is often said to have a homosexual or a heterosexual orientation, a description intended to defuse some of the long-standing violates church law. The court, in a decision released March 6, rejected a challenge by two church members who said Wayne Osborne's election violates a recent amendment to the constitution of the Presbyterian Church that bars sexually active gay men and lesbians from holding church office by requiring church officials to "live in fidelity within the marriage of a man and woman or in chastity Chastity See also Modesty, Purity, Virginity. Agnes, St. virgin saint and martyr. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewster, 76] Artemis (Rom. Diana) moon goddess; virgin huntress. [Gk. Myth. in singleness." Osborne, 38, said he was gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. by the decision but still concerned about other gay church members who may also face resistance because of the new amendment. "There are still people under the weight of this," he said. "I think many gays and lesbians will find hope from this." |
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