http://www.diatribune.com/the-umc-and-gays-our-witness-now Comments for "The UMC and Gays - Our Witness NOW" en http://www.diatribune.com/the-umc-and-gays-our-witness-now <div align="center"><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_n1PjOwi7EKo/SCO0MdEpH-I/AAAAAAAAAZU/02zRUGrczZM/s1600-h/General+Conference+sadness.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198196520971214818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_n1PjOwi7EKo/SCO0MdEpH-I/AAAAAAAAAZU/02zRUGrczZM/s320/General+Conference+sadness.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Gay rights supporters react tearfully to an April 30 vote at the 2008 United Methodist General Conference, retaining the church’s position that the practice of homosexuality is “incompatible with Christian teaching.” A UMNS photo by Paul Jeffrey.<br /> </em><br /> </span></div> <div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;">The once every four years assembly of the United Methodist Church’s legislative body, General Conference, is not scheduled to meet again until 2012. For four more years anyway, those of us who are United Methodists will have to continue living in a house divided, a house where the majority — made up of equal numbers of lay and clergy delegates—</span><a href="http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&amp;b=3082929&amp;content_id=%7b0F7E97E2-CC07-4D5E-B0E2-D4A5BCE73ED5%7d&amp;notoc=1"><span style="font-family:arial;">upheld church policy</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> by a vote of 504 to 417 declaring the practice of homosexuality “incompatible with Christian teaching.”</span></div> <p><a href="http://www.diatribune.com/the-umc-and-gays-our-witness-now">read more</a></p> http://www.diatribune.com/the-umc-and-gays-our-witness-now#comments Methodist religion Thu, 08 May 2008 21:31:20 -0600 Milos Janus Outlook 3602 at http://www.diatribune.com