One week after more than 100 United Methodist clergy collectively came out as LGBT, hundreds of their colleagues called for the church to end discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation.
“We, the undersigned clergy of The United Methodist Church, believe it is time: time for us to end the practice of requiring LGBTQI clergy and clergy candidates to hide their most authentic selves," says the open letter to the church, composed by the Rev. Ginger Gaines-Cirelli, the Rev. Gil Caldwell, and the Rev. Frank Schaefer, and released by Reconciling Ministries Network.
