sentences:  For decades members of the LGBTQ community have been welcomed as members in the Presbyterian Church.Since 2011, The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the largest U.S. Presbyterian body, welcomes gay and lesbian persons to serve in leadership positions as ministers, deacons, elders, and trustees within the church based on the discernment of individual ordaining bodies.This is referred to as home rule and does not make ordination of LGBTQ persons a mandated denominational standard.