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Kevin Eckstrom of Religious News Service reports that the defeat of Amendment O does not put to rest questions of how the PC(USA) will deal with pressures to exclude gay and lesbian people from its life and ministry.

Parker Williamson of The Presbyterian Lay Committee is quoted as saying that ""we were really on a roll, and this is a defeat, but we have to see this as one defeat in a very large war."

It is noted that while conservatives see the basic issue as one of biblical authority, those favoring a more open church tend to define the issue as one of "human relationships and God's care for all [God's] creation -- gay and straight."

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