Minister Punished for Same-Sex Marriages
A court of Presbyterian Church (USA) officials convicted a minister of violating church law for marrying same-sex couples.
In the church’s first trial on the practice, the court rebuked the Rev. Stephen Van Kuiken but refrained from suspending him or removing him from ministry.
Van Kuiken, 44, pastor of Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, has acknowledged performing the ceremonies and ordaining gays as elders and deacons. The minister of 19 years contends the church is facing a crisis of theological intolerance.
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