Responding to recent complaints about the work of the Stated Clerk, the Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, the Executive Committee of the Witherspoon Society voted unanimously to send this letter of support.

[4-27-02]

Clifton Kirkpatrick
Stated Clerk
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
100 Witherspoon St.
Louisville, Kentucky

The Executive Committee of the Witherspoon Society, meeting in Albuquerque April 21 to 23, has voted unanimously to thank you for your leadership and efforts at reconciliation within our denomination. We may not always have agreed with your positions on issues. But we appreciate that you are the Stated Clerk for the whole church, so we do not attempt to control or direct your actions. We appreciate that you not only defend the constitution of the church, but are constrained by it and by the checks and balances of our ecclesiastical structure and processes. We appreciate your continuing respect for those processes and for broad-based decision-making.

We thank you for following your call. We are confident that God is working through you, and we pray you will be strengthened to continue defending our constitution, which is indeed the primary embodiment of the principles that give meaning to the word "Presbyterian."

Jane Hanna
President
The Witherspoon Society


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