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The United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (UPCUSA) and the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.(PCUS), which united in 1983 to form the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (PC(USA)), have since 1978formulated specific polity regarding the ordination and/or installation of gays and lesbians asofficers, i.e. deacons, elders and ministers of the Word and Sacrament, and same-gender blessings andmarriages. This paper serves as a background to the gay and lesbian ordination debate by tracing thehistorical development of the Presbyterian ordination polity through decisions made by the Synodof the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) in 1729 regarding essentials andscruples, and the 1910, 1926 and 1927 General Assemblies of the PCUSA regarding subscription. Thesubsequent predominance of polity, rather than theological discourse, to solve theological issues laidthe historical foundation for the same-gender ordination and marriage debates and the developmentof the accompanying polity since 1978. This paper and the following two papers are evidence of thisdevelopment. Thus, I will trace the development of polity without discussing the theology of samegenderordination or marriages

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The historical development of Presbyterian ordination polity as background to the gay and lesbian ordination debate in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)