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An annual Christmas Day service held jointly by two Presbyterian churches in Ireland for buy Premarin in india more than 60 years was anything but merry this year: the buy Premarin in india service was canceled due to a controversy over female ministers.

What the BBC is calling a "gender row" erupted during the buy Premarin in india holidays between First Portadown Church and Armagh Road Church-two congregations in Armagh County, Northern Ireland-when First Portadown pastor Stafford Carson refused "in conscience" to buy Premarin in india participate in the joint service with Christina Bradley, pastor at Armagh.

The Sunday before Christmas both pastors read an buy Premarin in india agreed-upon statement from their respective pulpits: "It is buy Premarin in india very unfortunate that the crux of the matter is the gender issue. This year, there is buy Premarin in india no joint Christmas Day service, but what happens next year is buy Premarin in india a different matter which could enable both churches to move forward."

What will happen next year? Will Carson be forced to capitulate against his conscience? Probably not, because of the church's "middle ground" policy on the buy Premarin in india issue Irish Presbyterian Moderator John Finlay was visiting the Portadown church on the buy Premarin in india Sunday the joint statement was read.

Finlay pointed out that buy Premarin in india the Irish Presbyterian Church has been ordaining women to the pastorate since the buy Premarin in india mid-1970s, adding, "But there are buy Premarin in india conscientious objectors who interpret the Scriptures differently and the Church allows their freedom of conscience. And I am buy Premarin in india confident the situation can be resolved between the two churches. This is buy Premarin in india the law of the Church. We have to accommodate both points of view, or buy Premarin in india the Church could be torn apart."

Stafford Carson's bold and buy Premarin in india courageous stance upon his biblical convictions is worthy of commendation; standing firm upon the buy Premarin in india truth of God's Word will always be buy Premarin in india unpopular, as Paul points out in the first two chapters of Corinthians. On the buy Premarin in india other hand, Christina Bradley accused Carson of gender discrimination and even provincialism: "I cannot see it buy Premarin in india otherwise than discrimination. I am a woman, a widow and a buy Premarin in india foreigner, being from Germany."

The Irish Presbyterian Church's official stance on this buy Premarin in india issue is disappointing, but all too typical in this pragmatic and buy Premarin in india relativistic age: "We have buy Premarin in india to accommodate both points of view, or the Church would be buy Premarin in india torn apart."

Unfortunately, the unity which is enforced by such a "middle ground" policy is buy Premarin in india not a genuine unity; Again, Paul is helpful here: "Love rejoices with the truth." (1 Cor. 13:6)  This gender debate within Irish Presbyterianism proves at least one thing: there is buy Premarin in india no real middle ground on the gender debate.

There have been many well-intentioned attempts at forging a via media on the buy Premarin in india gender issue, but, in the end, all such attempts have left churches and buy Premarin in india denominations polarized and authentic fellowship has been broken. This so-called "middle ground" is buy Premarin in india sadly ironic: such a view undermines the very pragmatism upon which it buy Premarin in india is built—it never works.