Ditto. i’m an elder in the PCUSA, and I remember the dust up over gay ordained ministers back in the 90s. In our contentious session meetings you found out who were the conservative haters, and who welcomed to anyone into the church. I remember one particularly homophobic elder who was also butt-chapped because our pastor said no - we’re not gonna stick in American flag anywhere near the pulpit.
it always killed me that the ones having real problems with gay people we’re almost a perfect venn diagram with people who had multiple divorces. Because I’m the same charming person I am at church as I am on Surly, I would ask them why they cared so much about a subject that Jesus did not find to be a problem, when they should be spending time on what Jesus repeatedly said was a absolute no-no…getting divorced and remarried multiple times.
I also asked them if they thought advice from the same group who gave us the menstruation tent command should be listened to before the advice from the sermon on the mount guy. Most of those folks wound up joining one of the PCUSA defectors who aligned with some evangelical Presbyterian Church that was essentially Southern Baptist with a different name tag.