A United Methodist pastor in Charlotte, N.C., who performed a same-sex wedding earlier this year against the rules of her church is escaping without punishment.
At its quadrennial meeting last month, the United Methodist Church decided not to take up contentious LGBT issues. But that’s not stopping its regional conferences from making decisions on their own.
A Methodist pastor who was defrocked after officiated his gay son’s wedding in 2007 and then reinstated, has been deemed eligible to remain ordained in the church.