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This is the same article reposted. I've no problem with that.
The truth is that the District Superintendent who says that homosexuals are denied ordination but are required to be brought into membership is lying.
The very biblical church rules state that "homosexuality is INCOMPATIBLE with Christian teaching." It also says that homosexuals "MAY" be received into church membership. The intent of the two is to say that REPENTENT, NON-PRACTICING homosexuals are eligible for membership.
We will simply have to address that specific wording at the next General Conference in May of 2008.
What is obvious here is that the bishop intentionally used the associate to undermine the senior pastor. It was the associate who turned the senior pastor in.
Does "Judas" ring a bell?