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NEWS ANALYSIS: Fragile Methodist unity threatened in wake of Creech trial
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The Rev. Jimmy Creech is back in the pulpit at First Methodist Church in Omaha, Neb., acquitted on charges he violated church rules by performing a same-sex blessing ceremony, but the congregation remains divided over the pastor's action.
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NEWS STORY: Methodist bishops reject calls for special General Conference on gay issues
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The bishops of the United Methodist Church have rejected calls for a special meeting of the church's General Conference _ the denomination's top legislative body _ to deal with the potentially schismatic issue of same-sex marriages.
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COMMENTARY: Antigay bashing: In whose name did they attack a murdered gay man?
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Frances Coleman is editorial page editor for the Mobile (Ala.) Register.)
UNDATED _ I have not been slapped off a horse lately while on the road to Damascus. Nor have I gone into a trance, heard voices or even seen any ghostly handwriting on the wall...
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NEWS STORY: Georgia Baptists propose barring churches that allow gays, charismatics
c. 1998 Religion News Service
ATLANTA, Ga. _ The Georgia Baptist Convention will be asked in November to radically alter its constitution and bylaws to set new membership requirements excluding any churches that endorse homosexual behavior or charismatic styles of worship, such...
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NEWS FEATURE: Playwright gives Garden of Eden a gay spin
c. 1998 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ Playwright Paul Rudnick worships the joke god.
See any of his plays ("I Hate Hamlet,""Jeffrey,""The Naked Truth") or his movies ("Addams Family Values,""In & Out"), or read the film column he writes for Premiere magazine under the enticing...
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NEWS FEATURE: Early `Seder’ hopes to spread feminist message
c. 1998 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ Hundreds of women _ young and old _ sang, danced, clapped hands and banged tambourines Tuesday (March 31) at a banquet hall in lower Manhattan in an early celebration of the Jewish Passover holiday.
The occasion was a feminist"Seder,"and al...
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NEWS STORY: Gay supporters in Maine take on anti-homosexual bias in name of faith
c. 1998 Religion News Service
LEWISTON, Maine _ When Sally Lowe Whitehead's husband Michael came out of the closet after 21 years of marriage and the birth of six sons and announced he was gay, she realized that it was only in telling her story that she could survive.
Today, six y...
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NEWS STORY: Historic church trial of Methodist pastor begins
c. 1998 Religion News Service
KEARNEY, Neb. _ Billing itself as the"Crossroads of the Future,"this small city of less than 25,000 people sitting in the center of Nebraska _ indeed, the center of the nation _ bids to become a crossroads for the United Methodist Church in its decades-...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Focus on the Family increases role in homosexuality debate
(RNS) In an apparent effort to raise its visibility and increase its involvement in the volatile political debate over gay rights, Focus on the Family has hired two people who are former pract...
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NEWS FEATURE: Harvard divinity professor confounds cultural dividing lines
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ The Rev. Peter J. Gomes was a veteran Harvard divinity professor but a neophyte to talk radio last year when he sat down before an open microphone in Chicago.
The hour was meandering quietly, so the radio host ``decided to juice up the cal...
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