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01-July-1996 
 
GA96026 
 
 
    Moderator sets aside personal preferences to moderate 
 
 
    At the news conference following the election of Moderator John M. 
Buchanan, a reporter asked him what he thought the best outcome of this 
General Assembly would be regarding the ordination of self-affirmed, 
practicing homosexual persons. 
 
    He said, "I was concerned throughout the run up time that the 
moderatorial election not be a referendum on that issue.  It seems to me 
that the Assembly needs a moderator who can moderate this meeting and then 
interpret it.  I stated my personal preference, that congregations and 
presbyteries be allowed to make those decisions, but I think the time for 
me to be marketing that idea is now over, and that the time to moderate and 
enable and empower this Assembly to do what God is calling it to do is upon 
us.  So, I don't want to say much more about it than that." 
 
 
Bill Lancaster 

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