'WE REFUSE' RESOLUTION PASSES

First UM Votes No

On 'Traditional Plan'

By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

ONEONTA – Members of Oneonta's First United Methodist congregation tonight approved a “We Refuse” resolution that rejects the United Methodist Church’s reaffirmation of prohibitions against gay marriage and gay pastors.

The "We Refuse" resolution says the "Traditional Plan," approved, 53 percent to 47 percent, at the UMC’s General Conference last February in St. Louis, is “incompatible with God’s all-inclusive love of and for everyone.”