In the midst of the lie by some bishops that our church is one body united in hospitality and love, the people who risked arrest spoke the truth in love. We are not one body, we are a broken and wounded body, and our wounds are bleeding." -- Katherine Johnson, Executive Director of the Methodist Federation for Social Action, May 11, 2000

May 2-12, 2000

   At each General Conference, the United Methodist Church's Book of Discipline and Book of Resolutions are revised. Delegates make decisions about many concerns, including ones that affect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people (LGBT) within and outside of the UMC. The most recent General Conference continued the denomination's oppression of LGBT people.


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