Q & A With Jimmy Creech: Still Pushing For Gay Rights

By Mary Jacobs

One morning in 1984, United Methodist pastor Jimmy Creech was visited by a parishioner named Adam, who revealed that he was gay. Adam had chosen to leave the United Methodist Church, in light of the denomination’s then-recent decision that self-avowed, practicing homosexuals could not be ordained.

That led Mr. Creech to rethink his belief that homosexuality was a sin, and ultimately convinced him to perform same-gender commitment ceremonies. He underwent two church trials, and, after the second, his ordination credentials were revoked.

Read the whole story at The United Methodist Reporter

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Image courtesy of Jimmy Creech
 

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