United Church elects Canada’s first openly gay leader of a major Christian denomination
An openly homosexual United Church minister from Vancouver was elected as the 41st moderator of the United Church of Canada at the Protestant denomination’s General Council meeting held at Ottawa’s Carleton University last week.Rev. Gary Paterson of St Andrew’s-Wesley United Church in downtown Vancouver was elected from a field of 15 nominees on August 16 to become the first openly homosexual leader of a major Christian denomination in Canada.Brian Rushfeldt, president of the Canadian Family Action Coalition, considers the election of a homosexual United Church moderator an indication that the denomination has “lost its way.”“It is difficult to understand a ‘Christian claiming’ denomination selecting a practicing homosexual as the moderator,” Rushfeldt told LifeSiteNews.“The election of this moderator is indicative of a group that has lost its way and is under the control of a very liberal non-Christian element, more interested in their own ‘teaching’ than God’s teaching.”FULL STORY at