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Presbyterian Court Rebukes Minister for Gay Weddings

Sat, Aug. 28 2010 12:18 PM EDT
Jane Spahr
(Photo: AP Images / The Press Democrat, Christopher Chung)
Retired Presbyterian minister Jane Spahr talks with her supporters after being found guilty of misconduct by a regional commission of the Presbyterian Church on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, in Napa, Calif. The Presbyterian Church (USA) ruled 4-2 that the Rev. Jane Spahr of San Francisco "persisted in a pattern or practice of disobedience" by performing the weddings in 2008 before Proposition 8 banned the unions in the state. The church's highest court has held that Presbyterian ministers may bless same-sex unions as long as they do "not state, imply, or represent that a same-sex ceremony is a marriage."
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