Gay Ban

Fly Creek UM Composes Letter Voicing ‘Dismay’ FLY CREEK – Some members of the Fly Creek United Methodist Church have allied with their Oneonta colleagues, penning a letter expressing “disappointment and dismay” that the international church has affirmed bans on gay pastors and gay marriage. Thirty-seven regular attendees also signed it, said Julie Huntsman, who drafted the letter with Chris Kjolhede. But the pastor, the Rev. Sharon Rankins-Burd, did not sign it, and Huntsman said it is not the Fly…