Why does MLP provide suggested overture language at all? Why shouldn my presbytery come up with its own pro-LGBT overture and try to send that to General Assembly?
Presbyteries are of course always free to do what they want. However, the problems with having many different pro-LGBT, or ostensibly pro-LGBT, overtures show up at the same General Assembly are numerous. It causes confusion, it can divide our movement when some people support one overture and others support a different one, and it can result in the passage of a “feel-good” overture that says nice things but actually doesn’t change anything. The overture language that MLP recommends in this document has been officially and repeatedly held by the PCUSA’s Advisory Committee on the Constitution to be the language that will effectively accomplish the Presbyterian LGBT equality movement’s goals.
