"Dozens of Methodist clergy members took a stand...on Monday in the hope that their church will
re-evaluate discriminatory policies toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals during its 2016 General Conference, which begins on Tuesday.
More than 100 pastors, deacons, elders and candidates for ministry in the United Methodist Church released a letter publicly coming out as LGBT just one day before the church’s top policy-making body convenes in Portand to consider roughly 1,000 legislative petitions.
The letter is part of a growing body of Methodist clergy members protesting the church’s stance that “homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching.” Current UMC policies prohibit pastors from performing same-sex weddings and churches from hosting such ceremonies. The church also prohibits “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained." HP
More than 100 pastors, deacons, elders and candidates for ministry in the United Methodist Church released a letter publicly coming out as LGBT just one day before the church’s top policy-making body convenes in Portand to consider roughly 1,000 legislative petitions.
The letter is part of a growing body of Methodist clergy members protesting the church’s stance that “homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching.” Current UMC policies prohibit pastors from performing same-sex weddings and churches from hosting such ceremonies. The church also prohibits “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained." HP
And now Paul's Response to the open sexual immorality in the Corinthian Church:
Your boasting about this is terrible.
Don’t you realize that this sin is like a little yeast
that spreads through the whole batch of dough?
You are so proud of yourselves,
but you should be mourning in sorrow and shame.
And you should remove this man from your fellowship.
God will judge those outside.
Expel the wicked person from among you.
1 Corinthians 5:2,6,13 NLT/NIV