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William P. Thompson to receive Lazarus
Award
by Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service
25-January-2001
Former General Assembly stated clerk William P.
Thompson will be given the Lazarus Project's Lazarus Award Feb. 24 at
the project's annual awards banquet in Pasadena, Calif.
The Lazarus Project is a ministry of reconciliation
between the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgendered persons. It is a mission of West Hollywood (Calif.)
Presbyterian Church, the Presbytery of the Pacific and the Synod of
Southern California and Hawaii.
Its Lazarus Award is given annually "to a person
outside the project who has either sought reconciliation between the
church and the gay and lesbian community, or who has advanced the
spirituality of the gay and lesbian community."
Thompson, who was stated clerk from 1966-1984, was a
staunch defender of the PC(USA)'s policy banning the ordination of
"self-afffirming practicing homosexuals" that was adopted in
1978. Since 1984, he has become increasingly vocal in declaring that the
denomination erred in adopting that policy.
An earlier story on
Dr. Thompson tells of a scholarship fund established in his honor. |
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