Presbyterian Church moves to ordain gays, strike anti-gay language from Book of Confessions

''I feel proud of my church today.... I think a generational shift is what we are witnessing. There is a whole generation coming of age for whom acceptance is a given. The church is beginning to experience that sea change.''

Lisa Larges, national coordinator for That All May Freely Serve, an organization that advocates for gay equality in the Presbyterian Church, in reaction to the Christian institution's General Assembly vote (54-46%) to allow gays become ordained ministers. (LA Times) The church also moved to strike the only anti-gay language of it's constitution, the Book of Confessions, based on a faulty 1964 interpretation that added "homosexual perversion" to an English translation of the German Heidelberg Catechism of 1563. (courier-journal.com)