{"id":704,"date":"2008-11-07T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=704"},"modified":"2008-11-07T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T03:13:00","slug":"women-clergy-controversy-continues-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"Women Clergy Controversy Continues In Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quiet controversy in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterianireland.org\">Presbyterian Church in Ireland<\/a> became <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/2007\/12\/29\/controversy-over-women-ministers-in-the-presbyterian-church-in-ireland.aspx\">headline news<\/a> last Christmas when a sixty-year-old tradition broke down over the new female minister at a church.&nbsp; The two churches in Portadown, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstportadown.org\/\">First Presbyterian Portadown<\/a> and Armagh Road, traditionally joined together for a Christmas service, alternating locations and having the visiting clergy preach.&nbsp; However, in 2007 the invitation from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstportadown.org\/people.php\">Rev. Stafford Carson<\/a> at First Portadown specifically excluded the invitation for the Rev. Christina Bradley, pastor of Armagh Road, to deliver the message.&nbsp; The church declined the invitation and the two congregations had separate services.&nbsp; Under <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterianireland.org\/pdfs\/The_Code_070124.pdf\">PC Ireland polity<\/a>, when the ordination of women to be clergy was adopted an &#8220;opt-out&#8221; clause was also adopted so that ministers who believe women should not be ordained as clergy could prohibit women from preaching at their churches.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portadowntimes.co.uk\/news\/Presbyterian-churches-fail-to-reach.4672047.jp\">Portadown Times now reports<\/a> that negotiations to have the joint service this year have broken down.&nbsp; According to the article Armagh Road suggested a pre-Christmas service of carols while First Presbyterian Portadown suggested the Christmas service with the message delivered by the host pastor.&nbsp; Each church turned down the other&#8217;s offer so at the present time there is no common service planned this year.<\/p>\n<p>In an interesting side-bar, the current <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterianireland.org\/assembly\/moderator.html\">Moderator of the General Assembly<\/a>, the Right Rev. Dr. Donald Patton, grew up at Armagh Road Church.&nbsp; I have seen no comment from him on this situation.&nbsp; Last year then Moderator, the Rev. Dr. John Finlay, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/local-national\/moderator-breaks-silence-on-female-minister-controversy-13505449.html\">met with the ministers<\/a> but was unable to work out a resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quiet controversy in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland became headline news last Christmas when a sixty-year-old tradition broke down over the new female minister at a church.&nbsp; The two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,40,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-ordination-standards","category-pc-ireland"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Women Clergy Controversy Continues In Ireland - The GA Junkie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=704\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Women Clergy Controversy Continues In Ireland - The GA Junkie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A quiet controversy in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland became headline news last Christmas when a sixty-year-old tradition broke down over the new female minister at a church.&nbsp; 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