What Didn't and Did Happen at the Methodist Conference in Ft. Worth

[Shana A]

What Didn't and Did Happen at the Methodist Conference in Ft. Worth
by: ShannonB
Fri May 02, 2008 at 13:54:53 PM EDT

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I posted here a few weeks ago why the LGBT community should pay attention to the United Methodist Church(UMC) General Conference(GC) with the main point being that changes to this religious community's stance on LGBT rights has far reaching implications both socially and politically in our country.  Now today I am back to give some updates on what did actually happen as the UMC GC comes to a close.  It appears this year that the United Methodist General Conference in an effort to retain unity decided to reject everything! Anti, Pro, all petitions equally went down in flames.  But in all that, there are snippets of hope and good news. The best news is of course that things didn't get worse. Unfortunately, they didn't get better either.

[tekla]

It seemed to me that they weaseled out of having to make any decision, and if that's the outcome, why bother with the meeting in the first place?