Reply #2: I admire the strength and courage it has taken [View All]

and will continue to take for Rev. Stroud ...to me, no one deserves the title more....to continue in her struggle to become "legitimate" in the eyes of this church. There are other denominations to which she might have gone where she would not be discriminated against, yet she continues to do this for all of our sakes...straight,gay or bisexual...in the UMC.

I have known pastors who abused their wives, and remained ordained..remained with church assignments. I was once, a very long time ago, engaged to marry a man who aspired to the Methodist ministry, whom I left after the third beating at his hands. Beth Stroud is in a loving, long term relationship. Which is more God's will, do ya think?