Efforts to allow gays and lesbians to serve as clergy in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have been defeated again. Votes on Saturday by two presbyteries, or district church bodies, ensured the defeat of a proposal to drop a requirement that would-be ministers, deacons and elders live in “fidelity within the covenant of marriage between and a man and a woman, or chastity in singleness.” …

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