Evangelicals in the Church of Scotland have voiced concern following the publication of a Kirk report on the implications of the civil partnership laws which is paving the way for openly homosexual ministers to enter into such unions and continue to serve in the Church.
Forward Together, which has more than 300 members, have called for the proposals laid down in the report to be debated “calmly and sensitively” when they are put to the General Assembly by its Legal Questions Committee in May.
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