GLBT Equality Issues Continue to Roil Protestant Faiths

via WickedGayBlog.com by WickedGayBlog.com on 6/5/11

Issues relevant to GLBTs continue to roil America's Protestant denominations, on questions from marriage equality to the role of gays in the churches.

In St. Cloud, at least 70 clerics belonging to the Minnesota United Methodist Church signed on to a statement that said they would perform marriage services for gay and lesbian families, the Associated Press reported on June 2.

The statement's mass signing comes in the wake of that state's Republican-dominated legislature approving a ballot initiative that will go before voters in the next election. If passed by voters, the initiative will amend the Minnesota state constitution and outlaw access to marriage equality by same-sex couples.  Full story here!