Weblog: Methodist Court Acquits Homosexual Minister
Jury says church language on incompatibility of homosexuality with Christian teaching is too weak.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 3/01/2004 12:00AM
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Next month, the United Methodist Church will hold its quadrennial conference in Pittsburgh. Pundits seem to be unanimous in predicting that the Dammann verdict will mobilize both sides of the gay clergy debate, and that the Book of Discipline's language on homosexuality will be hotly debated—as it has every four years since 1972.
The church's liberals have issued a challenge to orthodox Methodists: the Book of Discipline's language on homosexuality is weak, they have said. Too weak, they say, to be enforceable. May the General Conference, then, embrace a stronger statement of biblical truth, so that no one can doubt what the United Methodist Church has truly declared.
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