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“It was honest about our disagreement”

by Art McClanahan May 3, 2012

Mike Slaughter said of the proposed amendment, by substitution, on homosexuality, to Paragraph 161.F of the Book of Discipline. He said, “It was honest about our disagreement…we are not of one mind.”

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