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.
The current clergy want it to go over the cliff too. Our church, located in a town in missouri, population of about 1200, and our “preacher” would not allow any anti-abortion signs that say “choose life” in the church lawn in January because they “might offend people”, and we should tell people we are praying for them, because that might offend them. Then he says that Jesus didn’t ever offend or upset people. I told him he was an idiot.