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Scouts, others invited to learn about Ten Commandments during Ogden hike

Last updated Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 8:44pm

OGDEN — Ogden-area Boy Scouts and their families can get to know the Ten Commandments from a little different perspective Saturday morning, when the Boy Scouts of America Trapper Trails Council sponsors its second annual Ten Commandments Hike.

The event is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. at the Salvation Army, 2615 Grant Ave.

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Reverend Bear Ride, left, and her wife, Rev. Susan Craig, right, share a joyous moment with Bryan Symonds, who is the first openly gay ministerial candidate at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, California, after a church amendment was approved, paving the way for the acceptance of gay ministers on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Presbyterian Church ratifies measure allowing ordination of gay, lesbian ministers

Los Angeles Times, Mitchell Landsberg

Last updated Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 10:18am

LOS ANGELES -- A debate that has raged within the Presbyterian Church for more than three decades culminated Tuesday with ratification of a measure allowing the ordination of gay and lesbian ministers and lay leaders, while giving regional church bodies the ability to decide for themselves.

With the vote of its regional organization in Minnesota, the Presbyterian Church USA became the fourth mainline Protestant church to allow gay ordination, following the Episcopal and Evangelical Lutheran churches and the United Church of Christ. The Minnesota vote was closely followed by one in Los Angeles.

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Presbyterian court reaffirms minister violated policy by marrying gay couples

Los Angeles Times, Maria L. La Ganga

Last updated Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 3:50pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- A Presbyterian Church appeals court has affirmed an earlier ruling that the Rev. Dr. Jane Adams Spahr violated the Presbyterian constitution and her ordination vows for marrying more than a dozen same-sex couples during the brief window when it was legal to do so in California.

Spahr, 68, was found guilty in August after a four-day ecclesiastical trial in Napa, Calif. She appealed that verdict to the Permanent Judicial Commission of the Synod of the Pacific, which ruled that she violated church policy, which does not allow clergy to "state, imply or represent" that same-sex wedding ceremonies are church marriages.

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Presbyterian minister who married gay partner is acquitted; appeal possible

McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Friday, March 4, 2011 - 6:02pm

MINNEAPOLIS -- An ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church USA was acquitted Monday by a church panel of charges that he violated the church constitution when he legally married his gay partner in California in 2008.

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