A Methodist pastor was defrocked 20 years ago for being gay. She's finally been reinstated
Beth Stroud said her "whole life would have been different" had she not been removed from her position in the church.
May 22, 2024
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Why is the United Methodist Church meeting over LGBTQ+ rights?
Delegates at the church's General Conference are likely to vote to rescind anti-LGBTQ+ policies, but it's not a done deal.
April 26, 2024
‘Amazing Race’ Clergy Members Wed In CA
Amazing Race contestants Pat Hendrickson and Kate Lewis tied the knot Wednesday in California, the Ventura County Star reported. The women, who have been together for 11 years, took a political stance on their marriage.
July 11, 2008
Inaugural Prayer Service Has Another LGBT First
The Reverend Elder Nancy Wilson of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches gave a Scripture reading at today's event.
January 22, 2013
Op-ed: Why Won't Catholic Bishops Listen to LGBT Laity?
Catholic leaders should talk about sexuality with those who aren't members of the clergy.
November 14, 2014
Michigan Faith Leaders Make Urgent Call for LGBTQ Equality
It's time for federal and state legislators to enact strong antidiscrimination laws, the clergy members say.
October 26, 2018
Methodist Bishops Back Choice on LGBT Clergy, Same-Sex Marriage
Bishops recommend that the church allow individual clergy members and regional bodies to decide on these policies.
May 5, 2018
Redundant Fla. Law: Pastors Don't Have to Marry Gays
Florida lawmakers spent hours debating a bill that will give clergy members rights they already had.
March 11, 2016
LGBT Clergy to Methodist Church: 'God Called Us' Here
More than 100 clergy members have come out in a challenge to the church's anti-LGBT policies.
May 9, 2016
'Dollars for Disobedience' Meets Queer Clergy
It took years for the nation's leading Lutheran denomination to welcome openly gay members and clergy. Here is a glimpse of the early process.
May 20, 2014
Inaugural Prayers Offer Sectarian Messages, Irony
Some clergy members asserted Christian supremacy, while others praised humility at the inauguration of a man known for ego.
January 20, 2017
Not All Presbyterians OK With Church Marriage Equality
The church this week ratified a new policy allowing ministers to perform same-sex marriages, but some clergy members say they won't.
March 21, 2015
Meet the transgender Lutheran pastor preaching acceptance: 'Nothing is wrong with you'
Drew Stever, a minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, is one of the few out transgender clergy members to be ordained by a Christian institution.
October 4, 2024
Anti-LGBTQ Archbishop Charles Chaput Fired in Philadelphia
Chaput, who has even questioned the existence of LGBTQ Catholics, will be replaced by a supposedly more liberal clergy member, Nelson Perez.
January 23, 2020
Anglican Priest Defies Church, Marries Partner
A Church of England clergy member takes advantage of England's new marriage equality law, in defiance of his denomination's opposition to same-sex unions.
April 15, 2014
Florida Advances Unnecessary Pastor Protection Act
The bill aims to affirm clergy members' right to refuse to perform same-sex marriages — a right they already have under the U.S. Constitution.
October 7, 2015
Louisiana Church May Split From Conference Over LGBTQ+ Stance
Because some churches are performing marriages for all parishioners and allowing LGBTQ+ people to serve as clergy members, one church is discussing leaving the conference.
October 27, 2022
Clergy from all 50 states gather in D.C. to support gay rights
Bishop Carlton Pearson of Tulsa, Okla., led hundreds of clergy members from all 50 states in a rally Tuesday urging Congress to pass the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007.
April 19, 2007
Gay clergy angry, confused about new Vatican edict
Many gay Roman Catholic clergy members are struggling to serve a church that considers them "intrinsically disordered," especially in light of the fact that the Vatican may well codify that stance with a soon-to-be-released document that could set new restrictions on candidates for the priesthood.
November 14, 2005
'No on Prop. 8' Reaches Out to Black Voters
As marriage equality opponents galvanized in the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles to target African-American voters, clergy members and other activists gathered just miles away to fight against California's upcoming ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriage.
October 23, 2008
United Methodist Church ends 40-year ban on LGBTQ+ clergy
The church has long been divided into factions over its stance on homosexuality and gay clergy and even weighed splitting into two separate churches over the issue.
May 1, 2024