Center for Investigative Reporting

September 14th, 2012

Methodists are among the last mainline Protestant holdouts on the topic of homosexuality.

Recently, United Methodists from around the world gathered for a convention in Tampa, Florida, where they decided the future of the church and its official policy on gays and lesbians.

Find out what happened in our new documentary: The Other Convention: A Church Votes on Gay Rights. The doc is being featured now on the YouTube investigative channel The I Files.

May 3rd, 2012

God is weeping

Karen Oliveto, pastor at Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco, and a leader in the Love Your Neighbor Coalition, which is trying to eliminate church rules condemning same-sex relationships.

Delegates at the United Methodist Church’s global convention on Thursday rejected proposals to eliminate a rule declaring homosexuality “incompatible” with Christianity. The 572 to 368 vote was a defeat for gay rights activists who have tried for years to change church doctrine. Read more.

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