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Presbyterians Vote to Allow Gay Marriage

posted on June 20, 2014

Religion News Service’s Lauren Markoe reports on the Presbyterian Church USA’s vote Thursday to allow its pastors to perform same-sex marriages where they are legal. The vote, which took place at the 1.8 million-member PCUSA’s General Assembly meeting in Detroit, comes only two years after a similar resolution was narrowly defeated at the last General Assembly meeting. This time, it passed with 76 percent of the vote.

Read at Religion News Service