Friday, April 29, 2005

Beth Stroud Reinstated

Rev. Beth Stroud, UMC, was convicted in a church court of being a practicing homosexual and stripped of her credentials. A higher court has overturned the verdict...because they don't like what The Book of Discipline says about homosexuality. Well, that's my interpretation. The judgement actually says that the General Conference and the relevant Annual Conference have not defined 'praciticing homosexual'.

WesleyBlog has perhaps the longest comment thread in its history as Methodists debate this decision.

3 comments:

John said...

Okay, what is your interpretation of the motivations of the appeals court?

Quibbling over defining 'homosexual practice' is transparently obvious dodge.

John said...

I don't understand. What due process was violated?

It seemed that the provision against ordaining practicing homosexuals was clear. Am I missing something?

opinionated said...

Thanks John, for visiting my blog and commenting. I'm blogrolling you. And dang, I thought I had coined the word "pornification." Guess it's a term whose time has come.