[10-3-01]

Update:  This case has been dismissed by the investigating committee of the Presbytery of Baltimore, but both Stroud and the complainant, Paul Jensen, have taken steps to ensure that it won't go away.  [7-30-02]

Later update:  Baltimore Presbytery judicial commission members recommend no charges be filed against Donald Stroud.  [11-19-02]

The Rev. Don Stroud, an evangelist for That All May Freely Serve, who served as a commissioner from Baltimore Presbytery to the 213^th General Assembly, has been officially accused of heresy and acting in willful violation of his ordination vows because he is openly gay.

The allegations were announced publicly during a meeting of the Presbytery of Baltimore on September 27, 2001. The Stated Clerk read the letter of accusation, from someone in the Presbytery of Los Ranchos (Southern California) only after Stroud asked that it be made public, and the Presbytery voted to concur.

In a statement after the meeting, Stroud said, "I regard this action as ecclesiastically bullying. .... It is the use of G-6.0106b as a means of harassing and intimidating me and my GLBT sisters and brothers into silence. G-6.0106b clearly exists as a weapon against the full inclusion of GLBT members in the Presbyterian Church (USA)."

Jim Tiefenthal's full report of this can be found on the TAMFS web site.

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