A Church of Scotland minister was deposed in June for various instances of gross immorality. Given the immorality that is tolerated in the Church of Scotland, this comes as something of a surprise. In this case the immorality
was of a heterosexual nature: had it been homosexual, perhaps it could have been committed with impunity. The biblical examples of Sodom (Gen 19) and Gibeah (Jdg 19) show that the tendency of the sodomite movement is towards immorality with no restraint at all, and the Church of Scotland may yet come to this. The Presbyterian Commission that dealt with the man faulted him, not for his immorality as sinful, but for the various surrounding circumstances: “he was in a relationship with someone else”; “he had betrayed the trust he owed to her as a minister”; “he had no intention of being in a committed relationship with her”. If the Church of Scotland were in better days, members of the Presbyterian Commission would now be deposed as well, for unfaithfulness to Scripture.
DWBS