Post by Logan on Apr 25, 2016 0:28:39 GMT -6
They knew it could mean a reprimand or even a church trial that might end their careers.
Still, the pastor of Charlotte’s First United Methodist Church and a retired bishop who once did jail time with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. decided to go ahead over the weekend and preside at the wedding of John Romano and Jim Wilborne.
The two Charlotte men became the first same-sex couple in North Carolina to get married – at least publicly – in a United Methodist church.
But the mainline denomination’s Book of Discipline sanctions only marriage between a man and a woman. So there could be consequences for the Rev. Val Rosenquist and Bishop Melvin Talbert – the clergy who performed the wedding – if any complaints are filed with Bishop Larry Goodpaster, who leads the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Read more here: www.charlotteobserver.com/living/religion/article73685782.html
Still, the pastor of Charlotte’s First United Methodist Church and a retired bishop who once did jail time with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. decided to go ahead over the weekend and preside at the wedding of John Romano and Jim Wilborne.
The two Charlotte men became the first same-sex couple in North Carolina to get married – at least publicly – in a United Methodist church.
But the mainline denomination’s Book of Discipline sanctions only marriage between a man and a woman. So there could be consequences for the Rev. Val Rosenquist and Bishop Melvin Talbert – the clergy who performed the wedding – if any complaints are filed with Bishop Larry Goodpaster, who leads the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Read more here: www.charlotteobserver.com/living/religion/article73685782.html