THE BEST OF RNS: Gil Caldwell, civil rights leader, turns his eye to LGBT rights
The Rev. Gil Caldwell, an 81-year-old retired United Methodist pastor who is supportive of LGBT rights, poses for a portrait on April 18, 2015, during the Jack Crum Conference, a social justice gathering of the North Carolina chapter of the Methodist Federation for Social Action at Epworth United Methodist Church in Durham. Religion News Service photo by Travis Long
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) "There is a possibility that on gay rights and marriage equality, God is speaking more through the judiciary than God is speaking through the United Methodist Church,” he says.