Crunch Time for the Kirk On Gay Ministers

The HeraldMay 05, 2004

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The love that dare not speak its name has become the subject that dare not raise its head.

So says the Very Rev Dr Finlay Macdonald, one of the Kirk's most senior ministers, about the church's careful management of its stance on homosexuality to date. The bitter split between conservative evangelicals and liberals in the Church of England, provoked by the appointment as Dean of St Albans of Jeffrey John, who is homosexual but celibate, is a reminder of just how explosive an issue homosexuality is among Christians.

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Crunch Time for the Kirk On Gay Ministers

That has not been mirrored in the Church of Scotland as yet, largely for fear of the damage such division would cause, according...

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