Ministry Punished for Lesbian Pastor
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An urban ministry that aids the poor and homeless had its official recognition removed by Lutheran church officials in a dispute over an associate pastor who is in a lesbian relationship.
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LOS ANGELES -- Two Episcopal parishes in Southern California announced yesterday that they had broken with the national church over the issue of homosexuality, placing themselves under the jurisdiction of a conservative Anglican bishop from Africa.
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By DAN NEPHIN  PITTSBURGH - A Presbyterian minister has been charged with breaking church law for performing a marriage between two women.
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An Anglican church panel studying the consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire sharply criticized the US Episcopal Church church Monday and called on its leaders to apologize for the turmoil their actions have caused.
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A jury of Methodist ministers yesterday expelled a Pennsylvania woman from the Methodist clergy after convicting her of breaking church law by living openly as a lesbian.
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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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The latest clash in the struggle among mainline Protestant denominations over gay clergy hits a critical point Wednesday with the church trial of a United Methodist Church minister who declared in a sermon last year that she is a lesbian living with her partner.
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Ministers are accused of trying to impose "a new morality" by ruling against an opt-out on gay adoption.
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The presiding judge in the church trial of a Methodist minister who declared she is a lesbian in a committed relationship ruled Wednesday that the cleric&#39;s defense could not call witnesses who would challenge the denomination&#39;s ban on sexually active gay
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A jury made up of United Methodist Church clergy convicted a lesbian minister Thursday of violating church law by openly living with her partner in a committed relationship.
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An appeals court Friday overturned the hate crimes conviction of a Swedish pastor who in a sermon had branded homosexuals a "cancer."
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LONDON (CP) - An Anglican Church commission urged Canadian dioceses to stop blessing same-sex relationships on Monday and encouraged both sides of the divide over homosexuality to apologize as a first step in reconciling differences that threaten to split
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Arkansas correction officials are dedicating a Bible-based program for female prisoners, but a national group said it's a risky move while a similar system is being challenged in federal court.
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The United Methodist Church defrocked a lesbian minister this week for the first time in 17 years. In a sermon to her congregation, the Rev.
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By Mark Agee, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 6--Agape Christian Fellowship's board has fired the church's founder and pastor, Terry Hornbuckle, because of his sexual assault convictions, according to a statement released Tuesday.
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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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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.