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Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) As the Presbyterian Church (USA) continues struggling with internal theological issues pertaining to the ordaining of gay priests and same-sex marriage, one Presbyterian Calif. church is leaving the denomination because it is not liberal enough. The West Hollywood Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles will formally join the more liberal United Church of Christ on Saturday, and is claiming that the larger, 2-million member (PCUSA) has not done enough to accept homosexuals though it lifted its ban on the ordination of openly gay clergy last year. The West Hollywood Presbyterian Church has had a progressive congregation with about 57 members since the 1980s, and is ready to be "set free," according to gay pastor the Rev. Dan Smith. "It's like being released from an abusive relationship," he shared with Reuters . The church will also be allowed to keep the property after a regional governing body called ...

High school students applying to Elmhurst College in Illinois this fall will be asked whether they consider themselves “a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) community,” the  Chicago Sun-Times  reports. The entrance of Elmhurst college. The liberal arts college , located just outside Chicago , is boasting on its website that it is the first undergraduate program to ask that question of its applicants. Answering the question is optional, Gary Rold, Elmhurst’s dean of admissions, told the Sun-Times. Checking “yes,” however, could make a student eligible for scholarship assistance of up to 30% of tuition. Rold also said that including the question is intended to help the college direct its homosexual students to services and organizations targeted for them. “Increasing diversity is part of our mission statement ,” he told the news service. “This is simply closing the loop, in many ways, of another group who has a very strong identity. It may not be rac...