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Published Date: 03 July 2009 By Frank Urquhart and Craig Brown THE gay lover and former wife of a homosexual minister who almost caused a schism in the Church of Scotland will tonight attend the service to mark his controversial appointment to a new post. The Rev Scott Rennie, 37, will be inducted at Aberdeen's Queen's Cross Church where he will become the first openly-gay preacher in the Kirk to minister to a congregation. He should have taken up his appointment in January, but the furore surro unding the move came close to creating a devastating split in the Kirk. More than 12,000 people, including over 200 serving Church of Scotland ministers, 5,000 Kirk members and more than 700 ministers from Protestant and Catholic churches in Britain and Ireland, signed an online petition opposing the appointment, which was approved by... [read full story]
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