HISTORICALLY, YOU WOULDN'T EXPECT IT . . .  AND YOU MIGHT NOT SEE ANOTHER!

From The New York Times,
March 10, 2014:
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"The head bishop of
the United Methodist
Church in New York
on Monday committed
to ending church trials in his region for ministers who perform same sex-marriages, essentially freeing them to conduct a ceremony still prohibited under his denomination's laws.

As the first sitting United Methodist bishop to publicly make such a pledge, Bishop Martin D. McLee instantly became a leading figure in a decades-old movement within the United Methodist Church, the country's second-largest Protestant denomination, to extend equal recognition and rights to gay and lesbian members. Though Bishop McLee said that he hoped his approach would heal the church's deep divisions over homosexuality, more conservative Methodists warned that his actions would push the denomination closer to an irrevocable split."

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