bigotry abounds

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113. Your questions were not legitimate, they were nit-picking and your conclusion is wrong.

Putting the United Methodist Church in the same sentence as the Southern Baptist Convention shows how far away from reality you are.

There is great movement underway in many of the mainline denominations to accept same-sex marriages, and to give a place in the clergy and church management for gay church members. In each of the denominations, while this trend is clear, there are also very conservative members and churches opposed to this.

The United Methodist are undergoing this change right now. Here is some information on it.

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"MILWAUKEE (AP) — A growing number of pastors in the United Methodist Church say they’re no longer willing to obey a church rule that prohibits them from officiating at same-sex marriages, despite the potential threat of being disciplined or dismissed from the church.

In some parts of the U.S., Methodist pastors have been marrying same-sex couples or conducting blessing ceremonies for same-sex unions for years with little fanfare and no backlash from the denomination. Calls to overturn the rule have become increasingly vocal in recent weeks, ratcheting up the pressure for the Methodist church to join other mainline Protestant denominations that have become more accepting of openly gay leaders.

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At a conference this month in Minnesota, the Rev. Bruce Robbins of the Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church invited clergy to sign a statement saying they’d be willing to conduct any wedding, not just heterosexual ones. He said more than 70 signed it.

Robbins said he was driven to a sense of urgency because efforts are under way to have Minnesota’s constitution limit civil marriages to heterosexual couples.

“One of the tragedies is, there are so many things we should be attending to: poverty issues, justice issues,” he said. “I wish this didn’t have to be at the center of our efforts today. But it is because of the inequality, the unfairness of the policy.”

Similar efforts in New York this month drew signatures from more than 140 clergy and another 500 signatures of support from lay people, according to an organizer. Another 100 retired clergy did the same in New England, and at least a dozen there have actually conducted same-sex marriages with no complaints."

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/methodist-clergy-defying-churchs-gay-marriage-ban-an-uprising-taking-place/