An Oregon
Methodist church that previously did not welcome LGBT
congregants has decided to embrace interested churchgoers
regardless of sexual orientation.
An Oregon
Methodist church that previously did not welcome LGBT
congregants has decided to embrace interested churchgoers
regardless of sexual orientation. According to
The [Eugene] Register-Guard newspaper,
the governing body of the First United Methodist
Church in downtown Eugene voted 168–10 to
become the third "reconciling" Methodist church in Lane
County and ninth in the state.
In 2005 the
church's Judicial Council ruled in support of a Virginia
pastor who barred a gay man from formally joining his
congregation because of his sexual orientation.
The decision
comes on the brink of the quadrennial General Conference of
the United Methodist Church, which takes place April
23–May 3 in Fort Worth, Texas. (The
Advocate)
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