ANOTHER METHODIST HEARING ON GAY CLERGY

Last December, Beth Stroud, an United Methodist clergy who admitted to being in a lesbian relationship was defrocked and stripped of her ordination. Following an appeal in April, that decision was overturned and is now being appealed again, this time to the Methodist Judicial Council for a final determination as to whether the UMC ban on gay clergy is legal or not. You can read more about this case here in an article from the Houston Chronicle.