UMC Court Deals Multiple Blows to
Homosexual Agenda in the Church
Stroud's Credentials Stripped Again; Also, Minister's Right to Bar Homosexual's Membership Upheld
By Jim Brown and Jenni Parker
November 1, 2005

(AgapePress) - The Judicial Council, the United Methodist Church's highest court, handed down another defeat to homosexual activists in the denomination yesterday when it defrocked Beth Stroud, a lesbian minister from Pennsylvania, for violating the UMC ban on "self-avowed, practicing, homosexuals" in ordained ministry.

At its regular fall meeting October 26-29, the United Methodist Judicial Council overturned the earlier appellate court ruling that had reinstated Stroud and once again withdrew her ministry credentials. It was one of several cases involving homosexuality that the court considered during the meeting. Story