More than 100 Methodist clergy members come out as LGBT day before church’s top policy making body convenes for General Conference 2016
In an open letter, 111 pastors, deacons, elders and candidates from the United Methodist came out as LGBT
Around 80 per cent of them were coming out to their supervisors for the first time
The letter was posted a day before the church’s quadrennial General Conference, held Tuesday in Portland
Clergy members who have openly come out as LGBT can be removed from the ministry under its current laws
By ALEXANDRA GENOVA
DAILYMAIL.COM
10 May 2016
Dozens of Methodist clergy members took a stand for equality Monday by coming out as LGBT, on the eve of the church’s quadrennial General Conference.
More than 100 pastors, deacons, elders and candidates from the United Methodist released a letter publicly, urging the church to reconsider its ‘restrictive legislation’ and instead see that ‘all persons are made in the image of God’.
Posted online by the Reconciling Ministries Network, the letter comes just as the church’s top policy-making body convenes in Portland, Oregon to consider roughly 1,000 legislative petitions, with 50 of these believed to be relating to homosexuality.
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