Congregations in Conflict: The Battle over Homosexuality
By Keith Hartman.
Description
A Methodist church puts its minister on trial after he marches in a gay rights parade. A Quaker meeting struggles to decide whether to marry a lesbian couple. An entire congregation is thrown out of the Southern Baptist Convention for deciding that a gay divinity student had a sincere calling to the ministry, and an order of celibate monks comes out of the closet. An Episcopal priest blesses two same-sex relationships--then a closeted gay lawyer leads the charge to have him fired. Homosexuality is the most divisive issue facing churches today. Like the issue of slavery 150 years ago, it is ...
ISBN(s)
0813522293, 9780813522296
