from JULIE HUNTSMAN, CHRIS KJOLHEDE
Methodists At Fly Creek
Pray Peacefully Together
To the Editor:
We appreciate this paper’s coverage of local dissent from the global United Methodist Church’s “Traditional Plan” which passed by a slim majority at the church’s conference in February of this year.
To those not acquainted with the issue, the Traditional Plan continues the UMC Book of Discipline’s codified discrimination of people identifying as LGBTQ. Those so identifying are not turned away from church, but they are denied full benefits of membership.
The implied message to LGBTQ people by this decision is that there is something wrong with them, that they are just not worthy.
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