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Contents:

• UNED METHODIST CHURCH MOV TO ALLOW LGBT CLERGY AND GAY MARRIAGE
• THE POLICS OF GAY RIGHTS AND THE GENR GAP: A PERSPECTIVE ON THE CLERGY
• UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY RIGHTS
• UNED METHODIST NSERVATIV TAIL BREAKAWAY PLANS OVER GAY CLN
• PUBLIC OPN AND RELIGN: GAY RIGHTS THE UNED STATPUBLIC OPN AND RELIGN: GAY RIGHTS THE UNED STAT
• UNEARTHG THE SURPRISG RELIG HISTORY OF AMERIN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISM

UNED METHODIST CHURCH MOV TO ALLOW LGBT CLERGY AND GAY MARRIAGE

And then the other part was always send-gusg myself - whether or not I was supposed to be open about my sexual orientatn, whether or not I was supposed to play the game of don't ask, don't Jt so that I'm clear, is the church's official stance on homosexualy today ambiguo or is pretty clearly fed and you'd like to see changed? S., church have gone beyond what the Book of Disciple says to make the church open and accsible to gay and lbian clergy like Do you know other pastors who aren't as open as you or haven't been able to be as open as you - have ma this choice to keep this important si of their liv quiet or secret om their ngregatns?

THE POLICS OF GAY RIGHTS AND THE GENR GAP: A PERSPECTIVE ON THE CLERGY

In 1972, the Uned Methodist Church adopted to s “Book of Disciple, ” or tablished laws and doctre, a clse which regnized homosexuals as “persons of sacred worth…entled to have their human and civil rights ensured. Gay clergy and same-sex marriage may be allowed at Uned Methodist Church thanks to a proposal drafted by the Connectnal Table, a rpected ternatnal body of clergy members and lay people the church. On Tuday, the mtee affirmed the proposal to remove church legislatn that punish clergy for beg “self-avowed practicg homosexuals” or officiatg gay weddgs, the Uned Methodist Church News Service reported.

While the church reversed s cisn on technil grounds, rather than those related to s posn on homosexualy, church lears saw the reversal as a signal toward full cln of s LGBT members.

UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE

Homosexualy has bee a ontle issue Amerin polics, as illtrated most recently by gay marriage battl the urts and state legislatur as well as state referenda mpaigns signed to fe marriage legally as the unn of a man and a woman. Usg survey data om a natnal random sample of 3, 208 clergy who serve six male Prottant nomatns, we analyze the extent to which genr operat as a signifint predictor of public speech on gay rights issu.

Ordal logistic regrsn allows to monstrate that women clergy are substantially more likely than their male unterparts to speak publicly on gay rights, as well as to mol more generally the factors that pel clergy to take actn to addrs this ntroversial issue public. " He says the plan don't acknowledge the historil legacy of homophobia the church, though he poted to the plan's allotment of $39 ln over four years to "support muni historilly margalized by the s of racism" as a step toward such an acknowledgement.

GAY RIGHTS

Eger helped pass the 2000 Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis rolutn support of officiatn and gay and lbian mment ceremoni, and is -thor of the official Reform movement gay and lbian weddg lurgy. Uned Methodists have long bated LGBTQ rights the church, cludg the ordatn of LGBTQ clergy and a clergy's thory to marry same-sex upl, for bate reached an flectn pot 2016 after hundreds of Uned Methodist clergy me out as gay and when a regnal nference elected the first openly lbian bishop.

Ultimately, legat approved a proposal that did not fundamentally change the nomatn's stance on sexualy, which ntu to say "the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg.

While affirmg belief that persons of homosexual orientatn are persons of sacred worth who need the mistry and guidance of the church, the statement add that the church “do not ndone the practice of homosexualy and nsirs this practice patible wh Christian teachg. One was to clare an abeyance (lay) on submtg or procsg plats related to homosexualy until after a procs for separatn had been approved and the nomatns that may rult om uld hold their first post-separatn General Conferenc.

UNED METHODIST NSERVATIV TAIL BREAKAWAY PLANS OVER GAY CLN

The agreement about abeyance, though, beme effective immediately among s signers, and many other bishops the Uned Stat have likewise agreed to hold homosexualy-related plats agast clergy abeyance until after a post-separatn Uned Methodist General Conference 2028 term what new polici, if any, will be. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

PUBLIC OPN AND RELIGN: GAY RIGHTS THE UNED STATPUBLIC OPN AND RELIGN: GAY RIGHTS THE UNED STAT

Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

UNEARTHG THE SURPRISG RELIG HISTORY OF AMERIN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISM

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.