Methodists defrock lesbian minister
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The United Methodist Church yesterday defrocked a lesbian for violating the denomination&#39;s ban on actively homosexual clergy â-he first such decision by the church in 17 years.
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When the Rev. Irene Elizabeth Stroud told her congregation last year that she lives with a lesbian partner, she set the stage for the United Methodist Church's third trial under a law forbidding clergy who are "self-avowed practicing homosexuals."
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A Methodist minister who was defrocked for declaring that she is a lesbian living with her partner is taking her case to a church appeals court.
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A jury of 13 clergy in Pennsylvania convicted a fellow pastor today of violating church law by living in a lesbian relationship and ordered her defrocked.
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By Liz F. Kay, The Baltimore Sun  May 26--Local United Methodist clergy are asking for a judicial opinion from the denomination's highest legal authority on Bishop John R. Schol's decision to reappoint a transgender pastor to a Charles Village congregation.
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PUGHTOWN -- A media frenzy converged on the small town of Pughtown Wednesday and Thursday for the high-profile church trial of Beth Stroud, a United Methodist Church pastor who told her congregation she is a lesbian.
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Conservatives and liberals locked horns  over homosexuality at a Church of England synod on Wednesday as  the worldwide Anglican communion faced the grim prospect of  schism.
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A controversial play that depicts Jesus  being seduced by Judas and conducting a gay marriage for two  apostles has been condemned by church leaders ahead of its  opening in Sydney.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. - A former church minister and Boy Scout leader who cut off another man's genitals in a makeshift gender reassignment surgery in a hotel room, pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree assault and practicing medicine without a license...
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A Methodist minister was tried by an ecclesiastical court on Wednesday for being a practicing homosexual and said she believes God created her as a lesbian but she does not expect to keep her job.
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The leader of the world's second biggest Anglican church attacks a report into the ordaining of gay bishops.
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Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart apologized Wednesday for saying in a televised worship service that he would kill any gay man who looked at him romantically.
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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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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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The issue of women bishops being allowed in the Church of England has been debated by the general synod.
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LONDON  - An Anglican church commission sharply criticized the U.S. Episcopal Church on Monday for consecrating a gay bishop and called on the church to apologize and refrain from promoting any other clergy living in a same-sex union.
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President Bush's nominee for surgeon general, Kentucky cardiologist Dr. James Holsinger, has come under fire from gay rights groups for voting to expel a lesbian pastor from the United Methodist Church and writing in 1991 that gay sex is unnatural and unhealthy.