European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes religion saturday june 18,1994 sticking to it Debbie Brown left Tim Thompson Center and his brother Michael All of Phoenix help stick a True love Waits cards into the ground outside the Orange county convention Center in Orlando fla., on tuesday. Seattle apr a Gay couple has been hired As joint pastors by a United Church of Christ congregation determined to practice what it preaches. The revs. David Shull and Peter Ilgenfritz who have been together about eight years will share an associate pastor ship at the 1,200-member University congregational Church beginning in August. The position of senior pastor is vacant. It is believed to be the first time that a Gay couple has been Given a joint pastor ship in a major denomination said Hans Holznagel a spokesman at United Church of Christ Headquarters in Cleveland. Quot our Only real fear is that some people perhaps both inside and outside the congregation might have difficulty getting past seeing us Only As Gay pastors a Shull said tuesday in a Telephone interview from Chicago. Church members voted 474-143 sunday to hire the couple after hearing the two speak. Quot we re an open and affirming Church and we should practice what we preach a said Alice Oehler a member of the Church Shirley Morrison said the Church needed to take a Strong stand on something and Ilgenfritz and Shull fit the Bill. Plus she said Quot i think they re the most outstanding human beings in be met for some  Washington a the Senate is urging the equal employment Opportunity commission to drop religion from proposed guidelines on unlawful harassment in the workplace. In a 94-0 vote thursday night the Senate approved a Resolution asking the Agency to remove religion from the regulations proposed last year to define workplace harassment. The Resolution sponsored by sen. Howell Heflin d-ala., and sen. Hank Brown r-colo., also asks the commission to make it Clear in any new guidelines on workplace harassment that religious symbols or expressions of religious beliefs Are not restricted and May not be used to prove harassment. The cards numbering about 100,000, Are pledges from youths to remain sexually inactive until marriage. They were planted during the first Day of the Southern Baptist convention. Shull 35, is a medical social worker. Ilgenfritz 32, works with Low and moderate income housing developers in Chicago. Quot they were the Best of 50 candidates the committee looked at Quot said the Rev. Gail Crouch another Assor cite pastor. A the fact that they were Gay was not a  for some members it was. A the change is too Radical a said Charlotte Taylor who voted against the hiring. David Bivins said a i m not a born again Christian but from what in be been brought up to believe the Bible says its wrong a to accept and perhaps convert such members will be a crucial part of their work Shull and Ilgenfritz said. A it will be a real ministry of Healing of reaching out to the 24 percent of the congregation who voted against this for a variety of reasons a Ilgenfritz said Shull said the two who met in 1984 at Vale divinity school had applied to roughly 150 churches a some for single pastor ships most for joint pastor ship a and got More than 115 rejection letters. The rest never replied. A we always thought sometime someplace it just might happen a Shull said. A we have been waiting for this for a Long Long  the proposed guidelines sparked heated protests from religion and business groups after they were proposed last fall. The Agency received nearly 100,000 comments before the formal period of Public comment ended monday. As originally drafted the guidelines define unlawful harassment As any verbal or physical conduct that a denigrates or shows hos Lilily or aversion toward an individual because of his her. Religion. Or that of his her relatives friends or associates.�?�. La Colin said the language would require that employers know their workers Well enough so they  say or do anything that would a harass the third Cousin of an  Christian science Church climbing out of the red from wire reports. Boston a rebounding from the costly failure of a Short lived Cable television network Christian science Church officials report that deep cuts in expenses have reduced the churches debts. At the annual meeting of the Mother Church the denominations directors said they had received $75 million in income Down slightly from $76,3 million last year. The Church spent $63.3 million compared with $64.2 million in fiscal 1993 and $215.5 million in 1992 a the year that the Short lived Monitor Channel Cable network was shut Down amid dissension about its High Cost. Treasurer John l. Selover said the Church had repaid Alt but $4.5 million borrowed from a Trust lefty Church founder Mary Baker Eddy. It also planned to repay $1 million this year to a Church pension fund that was used to help the Church survive its earlier financial crisis. In All directors borrowed $115 million from endowment Trust and pension funds to cover the Cost of its discontinued television operations. The Church lost $327.5 million on the Cable network which went off the air in june 1992.town shuts eyes to mtg sleepy Eye Minn. Mtg has been unplugged Here. Under pressure from Church groups the City. Council of this Southern Minnesota Community voted to recommend that the City a Cable Vendor replace mtg with the Tamer vh-1 music Channel. A we were told it was Mellower a Cable to advisory Board member Laurie stage said of vh-1. A it has no Beavis and butt head and no acid Rock. Mtg has More sexual scenes in their  the advisory Board received petitions signed by nearly 1,000 residents from churches asking that Midwest Cablevision get rid of mtg. The City Council unanimously approved the recommendation monday  Marks apartheid end Pasadena Calif. A archbishop Desmond Tutu returned to a Church in Pasadena that was Active in the anti apartheid movement to celebrate april a historic elections in South Africa. A we Are free All of us. Blacks and Whites together a Tutu told the 2,500 parishioners jammed into the All saints episcopal Church earlier this month. When the Nobel peace prize laureate last visited the Church in 1990, he expressed the Hope that someday Blacks in South Africa would know the freedoms that had been won by Blacks in the United states. Many of the All saints parishioners had supported Boycotts to end White minority Rule in South Africa. Quot when i was Here last we were talking of the Hope of something happening a Tutu 62, said from the pulpit. A and now a Miracle. Unfolding before our very eyes a professor becomes Leader Atlanta a William s. Barker ii professor and academic Dean at Westminster theological Seminary in Philadelphia has been elected to the top position in the presbyterian Church in America Barker 59, is the first professor to serve As Moderator of the pc the nations second largest presbyterian denomination. Barker is a graduate of Princeton University and covenant theological sem maty and received a doctorate from Vanderbilt  site unearthed Abu Dahabi United Arab emirates a evidence of a pre islamic Christian Community has been discovered on an Island in the United Arab emirates a newspaper reported monday. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a 7th-Century Christian Complex with at least one courtyard and 15 separate rooms. The site is on the East Side of sir Bani Yas Island the emirate news quoted Geoffrey King of London University a school of Oriental and african studies As saying a Over the course of the last few Days of the season the role of at least one building on the site was clarified by the discovery of three finely carved crosses that indicate the existence of a Christian Community on sir Bani Yas on the eve of the coming of islam a King said. Islam was born on the arabian Peninsula which remains the heartland of the Muslim Faith. Church hires Gay couple to serve As joint pastors religious harassment rules opposed