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Title: Methodists to Reinstate Defrocked Minister[LESBIAN]
Source: AP
URL Source: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationw ... methodist-gays,0,3380844.story
Published: Apr 29, 2005
Author: FOSTER KLUG
Post Date: 2005-04-29 17:07:53 by 1776
Keywords: Minister[LESBIAN], Methodists, Reinstate
Views: 203
Comments: 16

LINTHICUM, Md. -- The United Methodist Church reversed itself Friday, deciding to reinstate a lesbian minister who was defrocked after revealing her relationship with another woman.

A church panel voted 8 to 1 to set aside an earlier decision to defrock Irene "Beth" Stroud for violating the church's ban on openly gay clergy.

The Philadelphia minister said she was relieved by the ruling and hopes the church will become more inclusive to people regardless of sexual orientation.

After Stroud disclosed the relationship to her congregation two years ago, the church defrocked her, meaning that she could no longer serve communion or baptize anyone. She kept the title of associate minister and worked in a lay capacity at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown in Philadelphia.

"The church is not free to disregard the standards of justice and inclusiveness that are preached by Jesus Christ ... and are a part of church law," Stroud said after church authorities read their decision at a hotel.

"The ruling gives us hope that the United Methodist Church has the resources to do justice," she said.

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Methodists to Reinstate Defrocked Minister[LESBIAN]

I wonder which of the church members 'defrocked' her?? ;P

Zipporah  posted on  2005-04-29   17:10:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Zipporah (#1)

I wonder which of the church members 'defrocked' her??

It was either Ellen Degenerate or K.D. Laing

1776  posted on  2005-04-29   17:18:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: 1776 (#3)

It was either Ellen Degenerate or K.D. Laing

They're Methodists? :P

On a serious note, the Methodist Church has certainly transformed from John Wesley's holiness of heart and life.. has it not?

Zipporah  posted on  2005-04-29   17:24:09 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Zipporah, 1776 (#4)

The names don't mean much anymore. You must check each individual congregation one by one.

robin  posted on  2005-04-29   18:07:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: robin (#6)

Would your Grandma and Grandpa have believed that such a day would come?

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