Posted on 12/02/2004 10:49:01 PM PST by kattracks
PUGHTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The United Methodist Church yesterday defrocked a lesbian for violating the denomination's ban on actively homosexual clergy — the first such decision by the church in 17 years.
A 13-member jury made up of Methodist clergy convicted the Rev. Irene Elizabeth Stroud on the second day of her church trial. Methodist law bars "self-avowed, practicing homosexuals" from ministry. Nine votes were necessary for a conviction, and the jury voted 12-1 to find Miss Stroud guilty.
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Mr. Hall told jurors they had a duty to "hold a good pastor accountable to the standard with which we all live" under the Methodist Book of Discipline.
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I would have liked to have watched while the defrocking was going on.
The United methodist the largest cult in the the US, and hiltery and W are both members, you figure it out.
Ouch...
did you get a look at the significant other? She "ain't got no alibi..."
Why would they "frock" her in the first place? Lesbian and minister are just two words that don't go together. It's a disgrace to Christianity!
It's about time the churches started upholding Christian Canons. If she cannot comply with the discipline of her church, she needs to take her deviance elsewhere.
ping to self for pinging out tomorrow.
Nope. George is Southern Methodist. He just can't find an SM church in DC.
>>The United methodist the largest cult in the the US, and hiltery and W are both members, you figure it out.
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But as a Catholic, I AM glad you feel that way. :^)
I'm not positive but I believe that HW is Methodist but W changed to another denomination.
I was wrong.I just googled it and he is Methodist.
[7] not that there is another gospel, but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
[8] But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed.
[9] As we have said before, so now I say again, If any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1: 7-9
OHMIGAWD! A church that wants to enforce the tenets of its religious beliefs. What will they think of next?
You can be sure the 'non-discrimination police' will be out in full cry over blatantly practicing their faith and their rights to express it in peaceful assembly.
NSRV Galatians 1:7
The Great Whore and the Beast
Revelation 17
1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great whore who is seated on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and with the wine of whose fornication the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk.” 3 So he carried me away in the spirit£ into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication; 5 and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of whores and of earth’s abominations.” 6And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus.
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