More than 80 retired United Methodist clergy from northern California had offered to conduct same-sex marriage ceremonies on behalf of clergy who cannot perform them.
They signed a covenant stating, “We must not deny ministerial services to anybody because of their sexual orientation. We will witness that United Methodists in California-Nevada Annual Conference do have Open Hearts, Open Minds, and Open Doors and we will not tolerate the exclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered people from our ministry.”
I guess these gentlemen would like the Methodist Church to jump off the Epicopal cliff too.
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“Open Hearts, Open Minds, and Open Doors”
Reminds me of an excellent column former UMC-er turned Baptist Mike Adams wrote called
“Open Hearts, Open Minds, and Open Legs”
http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=79d81ff6-f108-4104-9ed8-45e7a29a5846&t=c
I so glad the family members and friends I had who were United Methodist saw the writing on the wall and left for more Biblically orthodox churches.