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Transcript: Interview: Irene Elizabeth Stroud discusses being convicted by the United Methodist Church for being a practicing homosexual
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ALEX CHADWICK
NPR Special
12-06-2004
Interview: Irene Elizabeth Stroud discusses being convicted by the United Methodist Church for being a practicing homosexual
Host: ALEX CHADWICK
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
ALEX CHADWICK, host:
Late last week, the United Methodist Church held a trial in Pennsylvania and convicted the Reverend Irene Elizabeth Stroud. Church law says that clergy cannot be--and these words are used--`self-avowed, practicing homosexuals.' In April last year, Reverend Stroud, an associate pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, told her congregation that she was living in a committed relationship with another woman. Earlier today, she spoke with our colleague, Noah ...