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August 25 - Group of United Methodists try to change church's position on gays

Article: Perilous Times| 
 
Hundreds of United Methodists trying to make their 12 million-member, worldwide denomination more gay-friendly are meeting in Huron this week for a national conference.

They hope to soon change their church's official position that homosexuality is a sin -- an issue that has caused a raging debate among the laity and clergy for decades.

"The practice of homosexuality is incompatible to Christian teaching," reads a section in the Methodists' Book of Discipline. But the nearly 700 people expected to attend the four-day conference at Sawmill Creek Resort, beginning Thursday, are working to rewrite the Book.

To do that they will call on the denomination's General Conference in April in Tampa Bay, Fla., to vote on new language that would allow openly gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions.

Previous conference votes showed the movement prevailing in the United States but failing in Europe and Africa, said Plummer, noting that Methodists in those two continents tend to be conservative.

He said the vote in 2008 lost by less than 5 percent of the 1,000 votes cast. "We have the votes in the U.S.," he said. "Now we're working to get the votes worldwide."
 

 

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