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Methodist leaders in Minnesota approve of same-sex marriage


Leaders of the United Methodist Church in Minnesota have approved resolutions in favor of ordaining gay clergy and performing same-sex marriages. The delegates made their votes at the UMC's annual state convention in St. Cloud on Thursday.

"We are asking the general church to be more inclusive of gay, lesbian persons in the church's life," the Reverend Bruce Robbins of Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis told the Associated Press.

The resolutions on the two issues will constitute recommendations to the denomination's General Convention, which meets in 2008. The vote was 496–223 in favor of the petition calling for equal access to the Methodist Church "regardless of sexual orientation." The resolution "to remove prohibition of United Methodist clergy from celebrating homosexual unions" passed on a 394–320 vote. (The Advocate)

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[maymorning.livejournal.com]

I've often found the Methodist church to be more tolerant and ahead of things. They just quietly got on with having female vicars while the Anglicans and Catholics raged and fumed. The Methodists and Quakers are the nicest Christians, I think.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I don't know why, but I have always had it in my head that the Methodist Church was a little on the stuffy side. I obviously got that wrong some where along the line. :)

[scorpio56.livejournal.com]

woo hoo! i always knew that my godparents were smart to change from catholic to methodist for a damned good reason, just in time to save me!