An Opportunity to End “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Recently 36 retired United Methodist bishops released a statement calling on The United Methodist Church to remove its ban on homosexual clergy. “Once upon a time, it wasn’t there, and it doesn’t have to be there,” said Bishop Don Ott.

The church will have a chance to remove the restriction at our 2012 General Conference. The Methodist Federation for Social Action and the Reconciling Congregation Movement are proposing that all offensive language about homosexuals be removed from our Book of Discipline.

Judy Koptik has a plan to help those efforts. She initiated a GENERAL CONFERENCE BOOK FUND, with the goal of sending one copy of Ermalou Roller’s book: On Thundering Wings: Homosexuality, Love and the Church on Trial to every delegate of our 2012 General Conference. She believes that this book might convince delegates to insist that church law recognize and respect that we are all created in the image of God.

Please decide now to be part of this important effort by contributing generously to the fund. (So far 102 books have been purchased; we’ll need 898 more.) Each book costs $16.95.

Write checks to First United Methodist with the notation: GCBFund. Your gift will be tax-deductible.

Thanks for caring and thanks for helping.