PC(USA) Minister Under Scrutiny For Performing Sodomite 'Marriage'
LOUISVILLE -- Pittsburgh Presbytery is investigating one of its ministers, a descendant of a legendary Puritan theologian, for officiating at a same-sex union last year. The Rev. Janet Edwards, 55, came under presbytery scrutiny last August after she married Brenda Cole, 52, and Nancy McConn, 65, who live near Wheeling, WV. McConn is a lifelong Presbyterian and longtime member of Dallas Presbyterian Church in Dallas, WV. Cole was raised Methodist but now is a practicing Buddhist. Edwards acknowledged that she married the women in a Pittsburgh-area ceremony on June 25, 2005. She said the rite was called a "wedding" and integrated the couple's Buddhist and Christian traditions.
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Posted by Editor at March 31, 2006 01:18 PM