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[KarenBueno at aol.com]

Thank you, Marshall.  I continue to be active in the  United Methodist 
Church.  The article points out that Methodist polity  decisions are made by 
global delegates.  If it were only United States  pastor and lay people, the 
debate would be over.
 
What might that indicate to our global ICA work?  Some of  the African 
delegates, I understand, say they would not longer be able to do the  work of 
the church if they included LGBTQ  people.
 
Karen (Wright) Bueno
 
 
In a message dated 3/15/2014 2:10:11 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
synergi at yahoo.com writes:

 
This  article may be of interest to those of you who retain a residual 
interest in  United Methodism, as I do on occasion.
For  those interested in the power dynamics recently in play, I even went 
so far as  to pen an extended commentary on the article (written by a 
Lutheran lawyer who  may have a historical perspective, but who is definitely not a 
Methodist  'insider'). It's at the bottom of the web page.
Update:  retired Bishop Talbert has just been formally charged in the 
Western  Jurisdiction today.
Marshall
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/7678/methodists_make_
history__or__an_argument_for_ecclesiastical_disobedience/




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