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Article: METHODIST CHURCH CHOOSES CONSERVATIVE COURSE ON HOMOSEXUALITY
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- Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
- Article date:
- May 9, 2004
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CHEYENNE -- The United Methodist Church is going to be fine
following the two-week General Council that concluded Friday in
Pittsburgh, a local church official says.
The leader of Cheyenne's Grace United Methodist Church, the Rev.
Jon Laughlin, said the Methodist church is "one of the most
democratic structures -- perhaps on Earth."
It is this democratic process he and other local pastors say will
save the church from the fate that befell the Episcopal Church last
year when an openly-gay bishop was confirmed in New Hampshire.
After the decision, some Episcopal congregations felt the church
had moved in a direction they no longer identified with.
As the 1,000 delegates at the conference ...