Will Ed Green is an associate pastor at Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington. I was born there and raised there, educated there, called by my local United Methodist Church into ministry there. This week, delegates from the worldwide United Methodist Church gathered in St. Louis to settle for good the denomination’s inclusion or exclusion of LGBTQ people and the churches that love them. The United Methodist Church is today a more exclusionary, judgmental and queer-phobic denomination than it was when I preached Sunday from one of its pulpits. The portions of the so-called Traditional Plan that prevailed at this week’s conference could forestall that feat from happening again.

Source: Washington Post February 27, 2019 23:36 UTC