On Monday, Washington Governor Chris Gregoire signed into state law the bill providing for legal recognition of same – sex marriages. Bishop Grant Hagiya of the United Methodist Church, was quick to express his support. I give you a new…
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Religious Backing for Same-sex Marriage Petition
There’s a long road ahead still on the path to restoring marriage equality in Maine, but one hurdle has been safely negotiated. The language for the proposed petition to allow same-sex marriage has been approved by Secretary of State Summers.…
Methodist Clergy: Gay Marriage Revolt Expands to New England
In Wiscinson last week, Lesbian minister in the UMC Amy DeLong paid the price for her courage in conducting a lesbian wedding in church some years ago: she was suspended from her ministry in the UMC – but for only…
Growing Methodist Defiance on Same-sex Marriage
On LGBT inclusion in church, the headlines over the past couple of years have been on gay clergy (Lutherans of the ELCA in 2009/2010, and the Presbyterian Church of USA, 2010/11). These decisions will increase the pressure on both denominations…
Foundry United Methodist Church Raising Funds for Gay Marriage, in Church.
When Foundry UMC voted last month in favour of permitting its clergy to officiate at same-sex church weddings, even while a ban on such weddings remains in the UMC Book of discipline, the result was unexpected – and seemed to…
LGBT Inclusion: Methodist Pressure Mounts.
The United Methodist Church is the largest of the US Mainline Protestant denominations, and has thus far resisted the clear movement to LGBT inclusion that us evident in the Lutheran and Presbyterian churches – but that is changing. The UCM has…
Gay Inclusion: In the United Methodist Church, the Push Is On!
How long can it be before the UMC follows the United Church, the Episcopal church, the ECLA, the PCUSA, the European Lutherans and the Church of Scotland, and removes the barriers to ordination for openly gay and lesbian pastors? It…
Methodist Church Billboard: “Being Gay is a Gift from God”
Toledo Ohio is not the first name that comes to mind when thinking of the hotbeds of gay activism in the US, nor the United Methodist church for the vanguard of the move for lgbt inclusion in church. That’s what makes this…
Yet Another Woman Bishop: Ho, Hum.
While the Vatican wrings its hands over the “grievous sin” of the attempted ordination of women, yet another woman, Rev. Teresa Snorton, has been ordained bishop, this time in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, in Mobile, Alabama. She is just the…
