The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s own backgrounder on the history of its ordination standards, naming the 1996 origin of the "fidelity and chastity" requirement and the 2010 to 2011 passage and ratification of Amendment 10-A, which removed it.
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The denomination's own staff backgrounder on its own ordination standards history, published by the church's own news service with no individual byline; the absence of a named author is the backgrounder's own convention for an institutional explainer, not a gap in this citation. NotesStates that the "fidelity and chastity" ordination standard, requiring officers to live in fidelity within a marriage of a man and a woman or chastity in singleness, was placed in the Book of Order following action by the 1996 General Assembly, and that Amendment 10-A, removing that flat prohibition, was approved by the 219th General Assembly in 2010 and ratified by a majority of presbyteries in 2011, taking effect 10 July 2011.
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PublisherPresbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Publication Year2012
URLhttps://old.pcusa.org/news/2012/6/21/general-assembly-backgrounder-ordination-standards/
Source TypeOfficial denominational history
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Custodian BodyPresbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Custodian BasisThe denomination's own news service, explaining its own ordination-standards history for its own members and the press.
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