My candid response is it's extremely poorly reasoned and is not well decided. |
She can be in this community and hold her conscience, but the church has its rights to its own governance. |
The church has a right and a responsibility ... to impose mandatory standards on its ministers. |
You have a situation where any minister anywhere can claim, 'My conscience tells me I can sleep with 16-year-old girl outside my marriage vows,' and who's to question his conscience? |