Human sexuality amendments fail

by Laura Allen May 3, 2012

During morning plenary, delegates voted down two amendments to the ~~Social Principles~~ that sought to acknowledge members of the United Methodist Church disagree on homosexuality. Tita Parham and Kathy Gilbert are covering this story for UMNS; I’ll talk with them on tonight’s GC2012 Radio podcast.

I went out to the hall during the break and caught a couple of reactions from delegates.

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