new-fangled baptismal formulas

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>(This is a press release from: United Church of Christ Office of
>Communication Cleveland, Ohio -- and is thus freely copyable)
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>
>  THEOLOGICAL COLLOQUY WRESTLES WITH BAPTISMAL WORDS
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>  CRAIGVILLE, Mass.--Do local congregations have the authority to
>  change the words with which the sacrament of baptism historically has
>  been administered in Christian churches?
>
>  That issue was on the table at the 12th Craigville Theological
>  Colloquy July 17 to 21 at the Craigville Conference Center on Cape
>  Cod, Mass. The colloquy is one of the red-letter events in the annual
>  theological calendar of the United Church of Christ, but the meeting
>  is also broadly ecumenical.....


Was this the same group that said they could not find any evidence that the
Bible spoke out against homosexuality?

Anthony