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• The 319-198 vote by commissioners, as the assembly's delegates are called, came after a committee had recommended deleting an amendment to the denomination's constitution, the Book of Order.
• A group of Presbyterian delegates, or commissioners, will meet Tuesday to discuss proposed amendments to the denomination's Book of Order, or constitution, that seek to explicitly prohibit same-sex unions.
• The measure to remove the ban from the church's Book of Order, or constitution, was approved 317-208 by the General Assembly of the nation's sixth-largest Protestant denomination.
• It was approved by a majority of the 171 Presbyteries in March 2015, and so it was included in the church s " Book of Order ", taking effect on June 21, 2015.
• _Earlier this month, the Presbyterian Church ( U . S . A . ) adopted an amendment to its rulebook, called The Book of Order, denying ordination as pastor, elder or deacon to practicing homosexuals.
• In the General Assembly gathering of June 2006, Presbyterian voting Commissioners passed an " authoritative interpretation ", recommended by the Theological Task Force, of the " Book of Order " ( the church constitution ).
• The four dissenting commissioners called the decision " an improper and unjustified attempt to rewrite the clear and unambiguous meaning " of the section of the church's Book of Order that pertains to same-sex marriages.
• The court said the only way now to ban holy union ceremonies is to change the church's " Book of Order, " or constitution, which currently prohibits same-sex marriages, but says nothing about holy unions.
• The ecumenical nature of the Declaration can be seen by its inclusion in the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church ( U . S . A . ) and the " Book of Order " of the worldwide Moravian Unity, the Unitas Fratrum.
• The commissioners were finally faced with a motion that would strike from the Book of Order a rule that requires officers " to live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman, or chastity in singleness ."
• The Book of Orders, issued in 1631 through three installments, aims to best oversee magistrates and their actions in order to increase their accountability to Charles I . References to the Book of Orders occur in the first act, as Thrifty reads aloud from his Almanac.
• The Book of Orders, issued in 1631 through three installments, aims to best oversee magistrates and their actions in order to increase their accountability to Charles I . References to the Book of Orders occur in the first act, as Thrifty reads aloud from his Almanac.
• While church law does not endorse same-sex unions, the church code, the Book of Order, gives ministers some leeway on the issue, simply prohibiting them from uniting homosexual couples if they determine the blessing " to be the same as a marriage ."
• The second action was to approve a new Authoritative Interpretation of G-6.0108 of the " Book of Order " allowing for the ordaining body to make decisions on whether or not a departure from the standards of belief of practice is sufficient to preclude ordination.
• As of Wednesday, a majority of the country's 173 presbyteries had refused to back a change to the 3.6-million-member denomination's Book of Order that would prohibit commitment ceremonies, according to an unofficial tabulation in the Internet news site Presbyweb . com.
• Pentz and Peachtree are considered conservatives within the theological spectrum of the PC ( USA ); Pentz and several other leaders of evangelical PC ( USA ) churches have proposed setting up alternate structures for conservative congregations if a proposed amendment to the denomination's Book of Order passes permitting ordination of anyone other than practicing heterosexuals.
• Monday's decisions pivoted on narrow interpretations of a 1997 amendment to the church's Book of Order, which decrees that marriage is a union between a man and a woman and that those ordained in the faith " live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between man and woman or chastity in singleness ."
• Additionally, the Assembly voted to send out a proposed amendment to the Book of Order that would change the definition of marriage from " between a man and a woman " to " between two people, traditionally between a man and a woman . " This amendment needed to be approved by a majority of the 171 Presbyteries to take effect.
• In the case of the Dobbs Ferry church, the commission said that the Book of Order did not deal with the concept of " holy unions, " and that the church was within its rights to conduct such services since it had accepted the fact that " these ceremonies do not constitute marriage " as defined by the denomination.
• The 90-word Amendment B to the church's Book of Order states that people ordained to church office should lead a life " in obedience to Scripture " and church standards, which include " the requirement to live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage of a man and a woman, or in chastity in singleness ."