These Ministers Won't Stop Showing Love For A Gay Pastor Who Lost His Job
“We’re trying to do our part to bring light to this injustice." Nearly 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of a church in Germany, United Methodist Church pastors in Lansing, Michigan used the same symbolic move with the hopes of starting a reformation of their own. More than 50 activists, many of them clergy, assembled outside the office of the West Michigan Conference's Bishop Deborah Lieder Kiesey on Tuesday. They read a pledge asking the UMC to "Stop The Harm" done by church leaders to LGBT people, then taped the pledges to the office's front door. "We hereby declare that we DO NOT accept what is directly contradictory to the teachings of Jesus and Methodist's founder John Wesley," the pledge states. The LGBT advocates were protesting on behalf of Rev. Benjamin Hutchison, a gay African Methodist Episcopal pastor who was spiritual leader of the ...