FORT WORTH, Texas-Efforts to remove a transgender pastor from ministry in the United Methodist Church died quietly here this week at the denomination’s General Conference. The failure to enact a ban most likely means the Rev. Drew Phoenix, a pastor in Baltimore, Md., who entered the ministry as the Rev. Ann Gordon, cannot be defrocked solely because he is a transgender man before the next General Conference in 2012. Conservative Methodists had proposed a handful of resolutions that would bar transgender men and women from the pulpit.
Methodists decline action against transgender clergy
FORT WORTH, Texas-Efforts to remove a transgender pastor from ministry in the United Methodist Church died quietly here this week at the denomination’s General Conference. The failure to enact a ban most likely means the Rev. Drew Phoenix, a pastor in Baltimore, Md., who entered the ministry as the Rev. Ann Gordon, cannot be defrocked […]
