'Blsed Are The Peacemakers': Colorado's Openly Gay Methodist Bishop Karen Oliveto Tweets As Church Propos Spl Over Gay Rights - CBS Colorado

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'BLSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS': COLORADO'S OPENLY GAY METHODIST BISHOP KAREN OLIVETO TWEETS AS CHURCH PROPOS SPL OVER GAY RIGHTS

In 2016, Bishop Karen Oliveto Lakewood was elected as the first openly gay bishop the Uned Methodist Church. She pris over 400 church four stat, cludg Colorado. * lakewood church lgbt *

"Tim Schraer, an openly gay Christian and the -founr of Church Clary, said his anizatn chose megachurch church for this new report, bee, "We know people look to the church for fluence. The anizatn tegori church as Undisclosed, Unclear: Non-Affirmg, Unclear: Affirmg, Clear: Non-Affirmg, Clear: Affirmg, Actively Discerng or Verified speakg about the importance of transparency regardg LGBTQ polici, Schraer referenced the story of Nathaniel Totten, a gay Christian who attend the nonnomatnal Elevatn Church Roanoke, Virgia.

In 2016, Bishop Karen Oliveto Lakewood was elected as the first openly gay bishop the Uned Methodist Church.

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RELATED: First Gay Methodist Bishop Wants Church To Embrace Diversy. The rtcturg after a ntent General Conference of the send-largt Prottant nomatn the US voted last year to rerce the church's stance agast ordag gay clergy and performg same-sex weddgs. Louis nference Febary, the nomatn cid that Uned Methodist church and clergy uld face removal if they do not affirm s stance agast gay marriage and non-celibate LGBT clergy by 2021.

The new proposal lls for a tradnalist Methodist nomatn that would ntue s opposn to gay marriage and the ordatn to LGBT clergy. A separate nomatn would allow same-sex weddgs and gay clergy. The Uned Methodists' Book of Disciple stat that all people are of "sacred worth" but nounc the "practice of homosexualy" as "patible wh Christian teachg.

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Openly gay and lbian clergy members n be removed om mistry, but church trials on the matter are rare. In 2016, dozens of Uned Methodist clergy me out as lbian, gay or bisexual fyg the ban on "self-avowed practicg homosexuals" mistry and sentially darg their supervisors to disciple them.

In some parts of the Uned Stat, openly gay clergy serve wh few if any rtrictns. Lakewood Church Pastor Affirms Biblil View on Homosexualy as S CNN InterviewEvangelil Christian pastor Joel Osteen attempted to fend his views on homosexualy a televised terview Thursday, sayg that he believ homosexualy is a s and not "God's bt. Soledad O'Brien, host of CNN's "Startg Pot, " then steered the nversatn toward the subject of homosexualy, askg Osteen if he believ that homosexualy is a rpond by tellg O'Brien that although he do believe that homosexualy is a s acrdg to the Bible, he do not foc on the subject his sermons as much as he do terviews.

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'Blsed Are The Peacemakers': Colorado's Openly Gay Methodist Bishop Karen Oliveto Tweets As Church Propos Spl Over Gay Rights - CBS Colorado .

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