A rev from the church of Scotland, Rev Roddy MacRae, has left the church due to the fact that the Church of Scotland now accepts openly-gay ministers.
He said that the Kirk had treated traditionalist evangelicals such as himself as almost unwanted. "You've got people who don't believe in the virgin birth … and they are acceptable within the Church, but now people like myself, who believe the Word is inspired, are marginalized and perhaps even treated as a disease within the Church. It's a sad day for Scotland!"
In 2009, a temporary ban was imposed on the ordaining of gay ministers following the appointment of the Church of Scotland's first openly gay minister, the Rev Scott Rennie, to Queen's Cross Church in Aberdeen.
The ban came as a result of a complaint by the Presbytery of Lochcarron-Skye, of which Mr MacRae is a member.
Yet this time, it wouldn’t help…
I myself am not a Christian, nor do I know much about the church. Yet I do believe that what the church in Scotland is doing now, is just wrong. Homosexuality and religion have never gone hand in hand before; and that’s not only in the Christian faith. The fact that a ‘good’ and pious rev from the Scottish church has to go now, because the church is no longer following the word of G-d; is in my opinion extremely dreadful.
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