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Time to Take a Stand!
This weekend is our fall organizing meeting at Memorial UMC in White Plains on Sunday, October 22nd from 3-5pm. We will be electing new officers and developing our plans for the coming year, plus coming together in fellowship and mutual support in what can often feel like an overwhelming cause. Highlights will include a full report and discussion with the Queer Clergy Caucus.

This can feel like an overwhelming time for LGBTQ people. As I write this, Rev. David Meredith is being investigated after 30 years of ministry for marrying his longtime partner and being open about his sexual orientation. The United States President has become the first in that office to address recognized hate groups with an anti-LGBTQ agenda, telling them “the times are changing back again.”

This is only a partial list. Challenges inside the United Methodist Church have been joined by increased attacks in civil society, legislative assaults on our rights, and open hostility and violence to women, minorities and LGBT people. We refuse to give in or be silent. We didn’t tolerate this before, and we aren’t tolerating it now. Please help spread the word, and we hope to see you on the 22nd!

Get Involved, Wherever You Are
The ultimate aim of our movement is to enable all of God’s children to feel welcome, at home, and affirmed in our denomination, in our annual conference, and in our local churches. Every local church needs to be in conversation about how it is (or is not, or can become) a place of welcome and safety.

At our October 22 annual meeting, one of our focus areas is a renewed emphasis on local organizing. We will have organizers working with individuals and congregations in every region of our annual conference. If you are interested in initiating conversation in your local church about inclusiveness, or in connecting with others in the movement in your area, please come to our annual meeting to learn more.

If you can’t make it but want to learn more, click here to send us an email. Let us know the name of your congregation, whether you want to work on organizing in your congregation or regionally. We will connect you with others locally who share the vision of a fully welcoming United Methodist Church.

Progress in this movement is made person-by-person. We hope you will consider joining in this vital work!

Drew Theological School Responds to UMC Judicial Council

Drew University Theological School

Drew Theological School Responds to UMC Judicial Council.

29 April 2017

Dear Bishops, Members of the Judicial Council, and Members of the Commission on a Way Forward,

As the faculty and staff of Drew University Theological School, we write pained and in grief because of the recent rulings of the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church. This statement is a response to those actions that bring into question the validity of the consecration to the episcopacy of our alumna, Bishop Karen Oliveto, and threatens the effective and faithful ministries of LGBTQI clergy and candidates in the UMC, including many of our students, alumni, and faculty.

We recognize that the United Methodist Church has wrestled deeply for decades with matters of inclusivity with regard to marriage and ordination of other than self-avowed, practicing heterosexual people, and that we hold different understandings of human sexuality and orientation. We read scripture differently. We see God powerfully at work in the world in differing ways. Yet, we are bound together by our profound faith in Christ and our conviction that the grace and mercy he taught still has the power to heal and restore a broken world and a broken Church. So, especially now, we speak out on behalf of those in the United Methodist Church who fear for their status and influence as church members, candidates for ordained ministry, clergy, and as episcopal leaders, celebrating their ministries and their divinely given sexual identities and orientations.

Our Church has been at difficult crossroads throughout its history. It was not that long ago, 1968 for example, that a sizable contingent within our Church strongly advocated for the continuation of the jurisdictional system–created in 1939 to formalize white supremacy in the Church–so that regions would have certain autonomy and “protection” to make their own decisions, in that case to secure racial hierarchies and prejudices. Yet today many in those regions that insisted on jurisdictional autonomy question the legitimacy of the Western Jurisdiction to elect the person they most believed the Holy Spirit was prompting them to select as their next episcopal leader—an Elder in good standing, with a proven track record of faithful, effective leadership, and the senior pastor of one of our most thriving congregations. The irony is not lost on us. We commend the Judicial Council for recognizing these restraints by preserving the right of the Western Jurisdiction to freely nominate, elect, and assign their bishops.

Yet, we believe that the Council’s decision that may subject Bishop Oliveto’s consecration to further review, and that expands the impact to other LGBTQI sisters and brothers now equally at risk of review, is not a sign of the revolutionary love and mercy that was revealed in Jesus Christ. Instead, it seeks to extinguish that love and mercy. We are reminded of that powerful moment in the early 19th century when Jarena Lee went to Bishop Richard Allen of the AME Church to ask him to license her to preach. Bishop Allen told Lee no, that the Book of Discipline “did not call for women preachers.” In response, Lee prophesied, “O how careful ought we to be, lest through our by-laws of church government and discipline, we bring into disrepute even the word of life.”

It is difficult to appreciate or even conceive of a judiciary process that leaves the United Methodist denomination in such a precipitous position and brings into disrepute “the word of life.” As the Drew University Theological School community, we stand in unity with a United Methodist Church that values God’s people in the many ways that we all contribute to the missional and evangelical aspirations of the Church, and to the wellbeing of the Church and the world. We long for the United Methodist Church to be one in which all of its candidates for ministry, clergy, and episcopal leaders are assessed not in terms of sexual orientation and its expressions, but by whether they, as John Wesley implored, love God and stand with the ones who have no one else: the lonely, the brokenhearted, the impoverished, the voiceless, the imprisoned, the widows, the children.

We believe that this denomination, if we will return to our Wesleyan roots, can and will be a place where all people encounter the love and transformative grace of God. Scripture clearly teaches us that God’s ways are wonderfully mysterious and that God’s mission is passionately and effectively advanced by those who sacrificially and faithfully respond to the call of God on their lives. Establishment leaders were regularly surprised, even appalled, by those God used to advance the cause of love and grace. Yet that never seemed to deter God, and it should not deter us.

At Drew we celebrate the ministry of our alumna, Bishop Oliveto, all our students, faculty, and alumni threatened by the actions of the Judicial Council, and all LGBTQI clergy, candidates, and allies who are concerned for their future ministry and service in the Church. We will not tire in our advocacy and prayers on their behalf and on behalf of our beloved Church. Instead, we take this moment to recommit ourselves to them, to the love and mercy of God in the world, and to call the Church to greater faithfulness and justice as together we proclaim “the word of life.”

We also take this moment to invite further dialogue with those who may disagree with us. Let us truly be an Acts 15 church that comes together to engage our differences honestly, in love and respect, united by our mission to manifest the radical love and transformative mercy of God in the world.

Respectfully and prayerfully,

The President, Deans, Faculty, and Staff of Drew University Theological School

MaryAnn Baenninger
President of the University

Javier A. Viera
Dean of the Theological School

Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Tanya Linn Bennett
Associate Dean for Vocation and Formation

Chris Boesel
Associate Professor of Christian Theology

Katherine Brown
Director, Theological School Center for Language and Learning

Robert S. Corrington
Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Philosophical Theology

Morris L. Davis
Associate Professor of the History of Christianity and Wesleyan/Methodist Studies

Heather Murray Elkins
Frederick Watson Hannan Professor of Worship, Preaching and the Arts

Danna Nolan Fewell
John Fletcher Hurst Professor of Hebrew Bible

Kimberleigh Jordan
Director of Craig Chapel

Laurel Kearns
Associate Professor of the Sociology of Religion and Environmental Studies

Catherine Keller
George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology

Susan Kendall
Director of Doctoral Studies

Hyo-Dong Lee
Associate Professor of Comparative Theology

Annie Lockhart-Gilroy
Assistant Professor of Christian Education

Jesse Mann
Theological Librarian

Mark A. Miller
Associate Professor of Church Music and Composer-in-Residence

Stephen D. Moore
Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies

Kevin Newburg
Assistant Professor in the History of Christianity

Kenneth Ngwa
Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible

Elias Ortega-Aponte
Assistant Professor of Latino/a Religions and Cultural Studies

Kate M. Ott
Assistant Professor of Christian Social Ethics

Arthur Pressley
Associate Professor of Psychology and Religion

Carl Savage
Associate Professor of Biblical Archaeology

Gary V. Simpson
Associate Professor of Homiletics

Angella M. Pak Son
Associate Professor of Psychology and Religion

Althea Spencer-Miller
Assistant Professor of New Testament

  1. Terry Todd
    Associate Professor of American Religious Studies

Traci C. West
James W. Pearsall Professor of Christian Ethics and African American Studies

Nancy Lynne Westfield
Associate Professor of Religious Education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Drew Theological School Responds to UMC Judicial Council.

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29 April 2017

Dear Bishops, Members of the Judicial Council, and Members of the Commission on a Way Forward,

As the faculty and staff of Drew University Theological School, we write pained and in grief because of the recent rulings of the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church. This statement is a response to those actions that bring into question the validity of the consecration to the episcopacy of our alumna, Bishop Karen Oliveto, and threatens the effective and faithful ministries of LGBTQI clergy and candidates in the UMC, including many of our students, alumni, and faculty.

We recognize that the United Methodist Church has wrestled deeply for decades with matters of inclusivity with regard to marriage and ordination of other than self-avowed, practicing heterosexual people, and that we hold different understandings of human sexuality and orientation. We read scripture differently. We see God powerfully at work in the world in differing ways. Yet, we are bound together by our profound faith in Christ and our conviction that the grace and mercy he taught still has the power to heal and restore a broken world and a broken Church. So, especially now, we speak out on behalf of those in the United Methodist Church who fear for their status and influence as church members, candidates for ordained ministry, clergy, and as episcopal leaders, celebrating their ministries and their divinely given sexual identities and orientations.

Our Church has been at difficult crossroads throughout its history. It was not that long ago, 1968 for example, that a sizable contingent within our Church strongly advocated for the continuation of the jurisdictional system–created in 1939 to formalize white supremacy in the Church–so that regions would have certain autonomy and “protection” to make their own decisions, in that case to secure racial hierarchies and prejudices. Yet today many in those regions that insisted on jurisdictional autonomy question the legitimacy of the Western Jurisdiction to elect the person they most believed the Holy Spirit was prompting them to select as their next episcopal leader—an Elder in good standing, with a proven track record of faithful, effective leadership, and the senior pastor of one of our most thriving congregations. The irony is not lost on us. We commend the Judicial Council for recognizing these restraints by preserving the right of the Western Jurisdiction to freely nominate, elect, and assign their bishops.

Yet, we believe that the Council’s decision that may subject Bishop Oliveto’s consecration to further review, and that expands the impact to other LGBTQI sisters and brothers now equally at risk of review, is not a sign of the revolutionary love and mercy that was revealed in Jesus Christ. Instead, it seeks to extinguish that love and mercy. We are reminded of that powerful moment in the early 19th century when Jarena Lee went to Bishop Richard Allen of the AME Church to ask him to license her to preach. Bishop Allen told Lee no, that the Book of Discipline “did not call for women preachers.” In response, Lee prophesied, “O how careful ought we to be, lest through our by-laws of church government and discipline, we bring into disrepute even the word of life.”

It is difficult to appreciate or even conceive of a judiciary process that leaves the United Methodist denomination in such a precipitous position and brings into disrepute “the word of life.” As the Drew University Theological School community, we stand in unity with a United Methodist Church that values God’s people in the many ways that we all contribute to the missional and evangelical aspirations of the Church, and to the wellbeing of the Church and the world. We long for the United Methodist Church to be one in which all of its candidates for ministry, clergy, and episcopal leaders are assessed not in terms of sexual orientation and its expressions, but by whether they, as John Wesley implored, love God and stand with the ones who have no one else: the lonely, the brokenhearted, the impoverished, the voiceless, the imprisoned, the widows, the children.

We believe that this denomination, if we will return to our Wesleyan roots, can and will be a place where all people encounter the love and transformative grace of God. Scripture clearly teaches us that God’s ways are wonderfully mysterious and that God’s mission is passionately and effectively advanced by those who sacrificially and faithfully respond to the call of God on their lives. Establishment leaders were regularly surprised, even appalled, by those God used to advance the cause of love and grace. Yet that never seemed to deter God, and it should not deter us.

At Drew we celebrate the ministry of our alumna, Bishop Oliveto, all our students, faculty, and alumni threatened by the actions of the Judicial Council, and all LGBTQI clergy, candidates, and allies who are concerned for their future ministry and service in the Church. We will not tire in our advocacy and prayers on their behalf and on behalf of our beloved Church. Instead, we take this moment to recommit ourselves to them, to the love and mercy of God in the world, and to call the Church to greater faithfulness and justice as together we proclaim “the word of life.”

We also take this moment to invite further dialogue with those who may disagree with us. Let us truly be an Acts 15 church that comes together to engage our differences honestly, in love and respect, united by our mission to manifest the radical love and transformative mercy of God in the world.

Respectfully and prayerfully,

The President, Deans, Faculty, and Staff of Drew University Theological School

MaryAnn Baenninger
President of the University

Javier A. Viera
Dean of the Theological School

Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Tanya Linn Bennett
Associate Dean for Vocation and Formation

Chris Boesel
Associate Professor of Christian Theology

Katherine Brown
Director, Theological School Center for Language and Learning

Robert S. Corrington
Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Philosophical Theology

Morris L. Davis
Associate Professor of the History of Christianity and Wesleyan/Methodist Studies

Heather Murray Elkins
Frederick Watson Hannan Professor of Worship, Preaching and the Arts

Danna Nolan Fewell
John Fletcher Hurst Professor of Hebrew Bible

Kimberleigh Jordan
Director of Craig Chapel

Laurel Kearns
Associate Professor of the Sociology of Religion and Environmental Studies

Catherine Keller
George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology

Susan Kendall
Director of Doctoral Studies

Hyo-Dong Lee
Associate Professor of Comparative Theology

Annie Lockhart-Gilroy
Assistant Professor of Christian Education

Jesse Mann
Theological Librarian

Mark A. Miller
Associate Professor of Church Music and Composer-in-Residence

Stephen D. Moore
Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies

Kevin Newburg
Assistant Professor in the History of Christianity

Kenneth Ngwa
Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible

Elias Ortega-Aponte
Assistant Professor of Latino/a Religions and Cultural Studies

Kate M. Ott
Assistant Professor of Christian Social Ethics

Arthur Pressley
Associate Professor of Psychology and Religion

Carl Savage
Associate Professor of Biblical Archaeology

Gary V. Simpson
Associate Professor of Homiletics

Angella M. Pak Son
Associate Professor of Psychology and Religion

Althea Spencer-Miller
Assistant Professor of New Testament

  1. Terry Todd
    Associate Professor of American Religious Studies

Traci C. West
James W. Pearsall Professor of Christian Ethics and African American Studies

Nancy Lynne Westfield
Associate Professor of Religious Education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MIND Statement on Judicial Council Ruling Against LGBTQI United Methodists

April 29, 2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
J. Michael Cobb, MIND Communications Director
203-512-1059

“No Matter What People Say: Decisions, Pronouncements On Me;
I Am A Child Of God!”

The spring 2017 meeting of the United Methodist Judicial Council has ruled that the consecration of an openly gay bishop violates church law.

Methodists In New Directions (MIND) has released the following statement in response to this and additional Judicial Council statements on LGBTQI clergy and laity:

“The United Methodist Judicial Council has spoken and its rulings against LGBTQI persons are contrary to the teachings of Jesus and to will of God. They do grave psychic and spiritual harm to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex persons among the clergy and laity of the United Methodist Church. While we review the specific language of its decisions and their implications for the UMC and for the New York Annual Conference, Methodists in New Directions reiterates its outrage at the way the church, through its General Conference and Judicial Council, continues its institutional oppression of LGBTQI persons, their families, and their allies. While the Judicial Council seeks to make LGBTQI persons even more vulnerable, we, like Jesus, stand with the vulnerable and oppressed. Of course the New York Annual Conference knew it was breaking the law by commissioning and ordaining LGBTQI persons. That was the point!

“An unjust law is no law at all. We will resist, ignore, and discredit the Judicial Council decisions, as we have of all the discriminatory language and practices of the UMC. We are confident that the New York Annual Conference will stand on the side of justice for LGBTQI persons, including LGBTQI clergy and candidates for ministry. The only way forward is non-conformity with the UMC’s discriminatory rules. We continue to call on the NYAC Board of Ordained Ministry and Bishop Thomas Bickerton to stand behind decisions and expressed desires to affirm the callings of LGBTQI people for ordained ministry. We urge the bishops of United Methodist Church and Boards of Ministry across the church to do the same.”

The decision is available at http://www.umc.org/decisions/71953

Methodists in New Directions (MINDny.org) is a grassroots organization of United Methodists working to end our denomination’s doctrinal prejudice and institutional discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. We are a regional group, organizing on the conference level within the New York Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church, committed to living more fully into God’s radical welcome right now and right here.

An Open Letter to the UMC from the United Methodist Queer Clergy Caucus

Click here to sign and express your support

Click here to read the press release about the letter.

 

April 16, 2017, Easter Sunday

Dear United Methodist Church,

In a week, our Judicial Council will be called into session to decide on the worthiness of the ministries and lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Questioning and Intersex (LGBTQI) clergy persons who have been examined, voted upon, and overwhelmingly affirmed by faithful United Methodist clergy and laity. These cases stem from questions of legality and briefs filed after the licensing, commissioning, and ordination of queer clergy in New York Annual Conference, Northern Illinois Annual Conference, and the consecration of Bishop Karen Oliveto. We, your LGBTQI clergy, write to you before their session begins to respond in love to this harm.

We, as the community of queer clergy that represent over 170 persons in 26 annual conferences, stand together: we are all one body and one church. Together we affirm and are proud of our denomination’s core beliefs and mission. We are deeply committed to introducing new people to the Way of Jesus, challenging all people (ourselves included) to grow in holiness and justice, and taking missional risks for the Gospel. While these questions, briefs and complaints are filed against some LGBTQI individuals, we consider them to be against all of us. These actions can also be considered as a general attack on the evangelism, discipleship, and mission potential of the United Methodist movement. They are hurtful to us, and they are hurtful to the whole Church. We write on behalf of our full queer clergy connection, acknowledging all those who identify as LGBTQI within and beyond our denomination who feel rejected and alienated from the church, a place purported to be the epicenter of Christ’s radical, unconditional, and unbounded love.

As a guiding principle of our Wesleyan tradition, we value and hold ourselves to do no harm. These briefs, along with complaints and charges filed against LGBTQI persons based solely on one’s sexual orientation and gender identity, are harmful. They not only fracture the body of Christ and dehumanize LGBTQI persons, but do harm to Creation, preventing a path to God’s “more excellent way” of love (1 Corinthians 12:31). These words and actions should be considered divisive by our ecclesiastical leaders and bodies. Hateful and narrow language, such as “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” does not define our sacred selves. These cases use our beloved families as weapons against us and reduce our loving relationships to sexual acts. They also drive seekers of Christ away and distract from our mission of making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. We lead truthful, full and loving lives, some of us in relationships with cherished partners and spouses. We are mothers, fathers, siblings, children, and grandchildren. We are all ministers, who have been called by God, certified as candidates, licensed, commissioned and/or ordained, and consecrated.

We respond to God’s Great Commission to proclaim the good news to all people, and we intend to live into the reality of the beautiful, bold, diverse, and inclusive Body of Christ. We uphold our denomination’s call to inclusiveness. “Inclusiveness means openness, acceptance, and support that enables all persons to participate in the life of the church, the community, and the world; therefore, inclusiveness denies every semblance of discrimination” (¶ 140 Book of Discipline). In following that vision and God’s call in our own lives, we answer to a higher authority than earthly institutional power and will not accept unjust laws when they run contrary to the Gospel.

We stand firm in our baptismal vows “to confess Jesus as [our] Saviour [and] put [our] whole trust in his grace” and “..to resist evil, injustice, and oppression in whatever forms they present themselves.” With humility and courage, we commit ourselves to Christ’s command that we love God and love one another.

We stand in support of every clergy person threatened by unjust actions, and our sibling, Bishop Karen Oliveto, as her standing is being challenged before the Judicial Council. Bishop Oliveto’s election is a visible demonstration of what is possible within The United Methodist Church when the gifts, graces, and call to ministry of LGBTQI persons are recognized and fully valued. We pray that the Judicial Council upholds clergy/episcopal fair process protections and our right to trial.

Whatever determinations are made by the upcoming Judicial Council, we will continue to run with perseverance the race set before us, looking to Christ, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith (Hebrews 12:1-2). We continue to hold our entire United Methodist Connection in prayer, seeking God’s grace and wisdom in the coming days.

Your siblings in Christ,

United Methodist Queer Clergy Caucus Representing over 170 persons in 26 Annual Conferences (including our Hidden Faithful siblings)

UMQCC Open Letter Signatories:

Rev. Jeanelle Nicolas Ablola
Rev. Brian Adkins
Rev. Austin Adkinson
Rev. Dr. Israel I. Alvaran
Rev. Elyse Ambrose
Rev. Douglas A. Asbury
M Barclay
Pastor Denyse Barnes
Rev. Bonnie Beckonchrist
Rev. Ann E. Berney
Rev. Rachel Birkhahn-Rommelfanger
Rev. Anna Blaedel
Rev. Daryl Blanksma
Rev. Jan Bolerjack
Rev. Thomas R. Boller
Rev. Elizabeth Brick
Rev. Tony Brown
Rev. Kristan Burkert
Rev. John Cahall
Rev. Dr. Joanne Carlson Brown
Rev. Dana Carroll
Rev. Jim Carter
Rev. Ronna Case
Rev. Karen Cook
Angie Cox
Rev. Britt Cox
Rev. Karen Dammann
Rev. Randa D’Aoust
Rev. Jani Darak-Druck
Rev. Alex da Silva Souto
Pastor Sean Delmore
Rev. Amy E. DeLong
Rev. Dr. James A. Dwyer
Rev. Greg Eaton
Rev. Dr. Janet Everhart
Rev. Renae Extrum-Fernandez
Rev. Anthony Fatta
Pastor Alexis Francisco
Rev. Rock Fremont
Micah Gary-Fryer
Rev. Ruth Ann Charlotte Geiger
Rev. Nestor S. Gerente
Rev. Sandy Gess
Rev. John Girard
Rev. Becca Girrell
Pastor Kaiyra Greer
Rev. John Edwin Griffin
Rev. Gregory D. Gross
Pastor Taylor Gould
Rev. Nancy Goyings
Rev. Will Ed Green
Rev. Dr. Emily B. Hall
Rev. Trey Hall
Rev. Dr. Edward J. Hansen
Rev. Janet Hanson
Rev. Marcia Hauer
Pastor Ashley Hawkins
Rev. Michael A. House
Rev. Betty J. Howard
Rev. Ann Hunt
Rev. Brittany Isaac
Peter Jabin
Rev. Dr. David Jenkins
Rev. Marguerite K. Jhonson
Rev. C. Michele Johns
Jacey Johnson
Rev. Elizabeth Jones
Rev. Lindsey Kerr
Rev. Dr. Jeanne Gayle Knepper
Rev. Katie Ladd
Rev. Bruce Lamb
Rev. Sue Laurie
Rev. Ardis Letey
Rev. Dan Lewis
Rev. Fred Lewis
Rev. Samantha Lewis
Rev. Dr. Pamela R. Lightsey
Pastor Christine Lindeberg
Pastor Rolly Loomis
Rev. Kelly Love
Adam Marshall
Rev. Dr. Joretta L. Marshall
Rev. Lea A. Matthews
Rev. Lois McCullen Parr
Rev. Courtney McHill
Rev. Ralph A. Merante
Rev. David. W. Meredith
Rev. Cynthia S. Meyer
Pastor Kathleen Meyerson
Rev. Jerry M. Miller
Katelyn Miller
Rev. Sharon L. Moe
Rev. Dr. Richard W. Moman
Rev. Deborah Morgan
Rev. Jeffrey S. Mullinix
Rev. Rachel Neer
Rev. Joshua M. Noblitt
Rev. Catherine Noellert
Rev. Gregory Norton
Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker
Rev. Matthew Alexander Pearson
Rev. Drew Phoenix
Emily Pickens-Jones
Rev. Jay K. Pierce
Rev. Jeanne Audrey Powers
Kendall Protzmann
Pastor Kathleen Reynolds
Pastor Jonathan Rodríguez-Cintrón
Rev. Maggie Roe
Rev. Daniel Sailer
Rev. Siobhan Sargent
Kenneth Schoon
Rev. Tyler Schwaller
Pastor Kimberly Scott
Pastor Ryan J. Scott
Rev. Patricia Simpson
Rev. Kim Smith
Rev. Dr. Althea Spencer Miller
Rev. Nea Stepp
Rev. Terri Stewart
Rev. Katie Stickney
Rev. Kristin Stoneking
Pastor Charles Straight
Rev. Mark Sturgess
Grant Swanson
Rev. Sara Thompson Tweedy
Rev. Ronald D. Tompkins
Rev. Adrienne Trevathan
Rev. Dr. Frank E. Trotter, Jr.
Dr. Joan Van Dessel
Rev. Martha E. Vink
Anna Voinovich
Rev. Vivian Ruth Waltz
Rev. Kathleen Weber
Rev. Dr. David Weekley
Rev. Judy WestLee
Jennifer Weyenberg
Rev. Jay Williams
Rev. Dr. Mark Williams
Rev. Brenda S. Wills
Rev. Jarell Wilson
Rev. John R. Wooden
Rev. Vicki Woods
Rev. Wendy Joy Woodworth
Rev. Frank D. Wulf
Rev. Laura Young
Rev. Nancy Kay Yount

Click here to sign and express your support
Click here to read the press release about the letter.
The original letter is published here.

www.umqcc.org