Gay Minister to Face Jury of Methodist Peers
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Nineteen months ago, the Rev. Irene Elizabeth Stroud gave a sermon that began and ended with Jesus saying, "Peace be with you." In the middle, she told her congregants that she was living in a "covenant relationship" with another woman.
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Ministers are to consult on creating a crime of forced marriage in the UK.
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A jury is about to deliberate in the trial of the Utah polygamist, which pits the state's interest in protecting children against his claim to religious freedom
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The United Methodist Church yesterday defrocked Rev. Irene Elizabeth Stroud over her relationship with her partner. The move is the first time since 1987 the church has taken such a move based on homosexuality.
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A Methodist minister who was defrocked for declaring that she's a lesbian living with her partner is taking her case to a church appeals court.
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A gay rights group is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the tax-exempt status of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries following the preacher's recent remark that he would "kill" any gay man who looked at him.
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A gay man was unlawfully discriminated against when refused a job by a Church of England bishop, a tribunal rules.
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The United Methodist Church defrocked the Reverend Irene Elizabeth Stroud for violating the denomination&#39;s ban on actively gay clergy.
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A Methodist minister who was defrocked last month for declaring herself a lesbian said Monday that she will appeal the decision through church courts.
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Gay evangelicals come from a tradition whose leaders have led the fight against greater acceptance of homosexuals.
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A lesbian Methodist minister was defrocked on Thursday after being found guilty by an ecclesiastical court of violating a church law that bars its clergy from being practicing homosexuals.
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A United Methodist minister who has changed gender since being chosen to lead a congregation in Baltimore will be reappointed there, church officials announced
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The spiritual head of the U.S. Episcopal Church said on Friday its leaders would likely respond in full next week to a request by the broader Anglican communion that it stop ordaining openly gay bishops and outlaw the blessing of same-sex marriages.
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PUGHTOWN, Pennsylvania  - A lesbian Methodist  minister was found guilty by an ecclesiastical court on  Thursday of breaking church law by being openly homosexual.
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Anglican ministers accused of cheating on their spouses may be included on a proposed church database of child abusers and sex offenders, a church official said Tuesday.
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Archbishop Robin Eames said his Lambeth Commission&#39;s report would &quot;have teeth,&quot; but conservative Anglicans blasted it for not being tough enough on churches with liberal attitudes toward homosexuality and liberal Anglicans thought major areas were unfair
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A crucial report into homosexuality within the Anglican church was set to be published Monday amid fears the issue could cause a worldwide split within the religion.