A report on EPConnection, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church's own news and information service, dated 22 June 2017, stating that commissioners to the denomination's 37th General Assembly adopted the Preliminary Position Paper on Human Sexuality as its official Position Paper on Human Sexuality effective 23 June 2017, replacing earlier separate papers on homosexuality and on the sanctity of marriage; the report states the church's underlying position had not changed, only how it is expressed.
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The Evangelical Presbyterian Church's own news and information service reporting its own General Assembly's adoption of its own position paper, paired with independent journalism (Christianity Today) covering the denomination's later, unresolved 2024 debate over the same question. NotesCited for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church's reading within the Presbyterianism sexuality-position synthesis.
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PublisherEPConnection (Evangelical Presbyterian Church)
Publication Year2017
URLhttps://epconnection.org/2017/06/22/general-assembly-adopts-position-paper-on-human-sexuality/
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Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyEvangelical Presbyterian Church
Custodian BasisEPConnection identifies itself as the news and information service of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, publishing the denomination's own account of its General Assembly actions.
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