Edward
Puritanboard Commissioner
This video you posted? Ugh. Even if I thought it was acceptable to dance, this isn't it. It isn't masculine at all.
When I first started reading your post, I thought you were talking about these guys being masculine, and I was thinking your 'dar needed a bit of adjustment. These guys may be straight as arrows, but they sure don't come across that way in the part of the dance I could stomach.
Probably back to the mid to late 1990s maybe?
You are at least a decade off. I remember it from the late 1980s. At least it was women acting feminine back then. And I don't recall that it was part of the worship service when I first ran across it. I don't remember seeing it in worship until the early 90s. (Per Wikipedia, the group I'm thinking of started in 1986. I ran across them within their first couple of years.)
I was told by a commissioner to this year's assembly that outside he overheard a group of commissioners (from the hip progressive side was the implication) using profanity, swearing and F-bombs. He gently chided them but was told Jesus loved us and a little swearing sometimes is okay.
See, that points up the problem. Sometime being gentle in chiding isn't the appropriate response. Building a reputation as the nicest guy in the room brings its own reward, but it isn't going to win many battles.