Via press release:
At a joint press conference today,
United Methodist Bishop Martin McLee and Rev. Dr. Thomas W. Ogletree
announced that the church was dropping the case against Dr. Ogletree for
officiating at his son’s wedding. In a huge victory for the Methodist
movement that is organizing ministry to all couples on an equal basis in
open defiance of church law, the bishop dropped the case without any
conditions. Furthermore, Bishop McLee said in his statement “I call for
and commit to cessation of trials,” the first time ever a sitting United
Methodist bishop has categorically declared he will not prosecute
pastors for ministering to LGBTQ people. “I am grateful that Bishop
McLee has withdrawn this case and the church is no longer prosecuting me
for an act of pastoral faithfulness and fatherly love,” said Dr.
Ogletree. “But I am even more grateful that he is vowing not to
prosecute others who have been likewise faithful in ministry to LGBTQ
people. May our bishop’s commitment to cease such prosecutions be the
beginning of the end of the United Methodist Church’s misguided era of
discriminating against LGBTQ people.”
There's gonna be a big ole pile of sadz about this.
Reposted from Joe Jervis
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