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Pacific NW UM Homosexuality Loop Hole Thread

• In Response to Liberal Clergy Disobedience, about 20 Evangelical UM Pastors Meet . . . Yes, that's all - May 26, 2004

  • Lesbian Pastor Won't Ask for Appointment at This Time, but her Lawyer's Statement Implies Next Battle to Come Soon - May 15, 2004

  • Judicial Council Quotes Webster for the Definition of the word "Since" - Yes, the J-Council has demonstrated that the Dammann Trial jurors are renegades -- so what! This won't stop the disobedience - May 1, 2004

  • UM Churches Want To Leave Homosexualized Conference - April 20, 2004

  • Faithful Laity Group From Lesbian Dammann's Conference Calls Upon General Conference To Deal With "enemies of the cross of Christ"―The Conference Leadership - April 20, 2004

  • Faithful Layman In Dammann Conference Makes Pea To Bishops For Help - April 16, 2004

  • Pastors Announce Demand for Censure of Lesbian UM Pastor - "Karen Dammann should not be allowed to serve as a United Methodist minister . . . She should be removed because of our church teaching" - April 15, 2004

  • "Plan of Separation" - UM Pastor Writes of Irreconcilable Differences - April 13, 2004

  • Verdict sets stage for homosexuality debate at assembly (UMNS)...Again, again, again, again, again - April 9, 2004

  • Whether Pontificating at the Pulpit, or Testifying at the Dammann Trial, Bishop Tuell's So-called Logic is Obvious Nonsense - April 6, 2004

  • Wesley's Quadrilateral per UM Bishop Jack Tuell, Author of Dammann Jury "Logic" of Acquittal: Experience Trumps Scripture - Will YOU be the first to file a complaint? - April 6, 2004

  • 100 Texas UM Clergy Demand Bishops Condemn Dammann Trial Fiasco - April 6, 2004

  • What I would say to Karen Dammann (Commentary) - April 6, 2004

  • Holston Conference Bishop's Statement Embodies What Can Be Expected From All UM Bishops - Real defenders of the faith, huh? - March 31, 2004

  • Northwest ordinance (World Magazine) - March 31, 2004

  • American Family Association President Predicts No Real Action Dealing With Official Church Abominations At General Conference - March 30, 2004

  • Even "the Young and the Restless" Weigh In On Latest Official United Methodist Abomination - March 30, 2004

  • Chuck Colsen Weighs In On "Methodist Maddness" - March 30, 2004

  • National Columnist, Cal Thomas Say It's Time For The Faithful To Leave A Lost United Methodist Church - March 28, 2004

  • UCMPage.org Editors Invited To Damman's Church To See Play Depicting Christ As Gay Necrophiliac - March 28, 2004

  • UM Bishop's Council: "Pay no attention to the Lesbian behind the curtain," "Don't worry, be happy." - March 28, 2004

  • UM Liberal Leadership (exhibited by UM News Service) Begs Clergy and Laity to Discard Notions of Schism - They are just so desperate to hold onto their "Tower of Babel" bureaucracy!  - March 28, 2004

  • Death Knell for The United Methodist Church? OR Chew and Enjoy While You Can!! (Commentary) - March 27, 2004

  • UM Bishop's Council Vows To Uphold Church Law As They Always Have - Affirm Church Law Publically And Do Nothing About Those Who Disobey It - March 27, 2004

  • Faithful Christian Laity Amidst Apostate Clergy Plan Faithful Response To Unfaithful Acts Of Rebellious UM "Leaders" - March 26, 2004
  • UM Evangelist: Pro-homosexuality Bishop Swenson's Response An Offense - March 26, 2004
  • Good News Org Calls Upon UM's Not To Leave Unfaithful Denomination, But Pray And Wait For Liberals To Retire - March 26, 2004
  • UM Accountability? Where? - March 26, 2004
  • Commentary: Why do we play with words? (UMNS) Lay Leader's Call for Schism--Jettison the Liberals! - March 26, 2004
  • Pro-homosexuality Pastor Sees Schism With West Taking Their Cut Of UMC In The Church Future - March 26, 2004
  • The Institute on Religion and Democracy:  Dishonest - Methodist Church Jury Ignores Church Law on Homosexuality - March 24, 2004
  • Good News Org: Jury Judged Church Law and Not Professed Practicing Lesbian Pastor - March 24, 2004
  • Florida UM Bishop: "the covenant that exists among United Methodists has been breached." - Schism considered a possible outcome of General Conference! - March 24, 2004
  • Conservative Confessing Movement Responds: Let General Conference Do Something Like Letting West Split From The Denomination - what irony, faithful Methodists lose their building and assets, unfaithful can leave with it all - March 24, 2004
  • UMC Womens' Org Leader Sees "Split" As Solution To Stem Denomination Exodus if Disobedient Conferences cannot be Reigned In - March 24, 2004
  • Alabama/West Florida UM Bishop Goodpaster Responds To Western Fiasco - March 24, 2004
  • Baptists Offer Their Perspective On UM Apostasy - March 24, 2004
  • 13 Clergy and 60-member Congregation Set De Facto Rules for 8-Million Member Denomination  - March 23, 2004
  • UMC Layman in Dammann Conference Says Trial Outcome Could "Lead to Anarchy" - Will openly practicing polygamist pastors be next? What's wrong with a committed loving relationship with many spouses? 13 UMC clergy are liable to decide almost anything.
  • Conservative UMC Renewal Leaders Lament Dammann Trial Acquittal, While Most in the West Celebrate - So, what else is new? . . . been like this for many years now? - March 23, 2004
  • Make it official―Go in peace (Commentary) - March 23, 2004
  • The United Methodist Church has reached the continental divide (Commentary) - March 23, 2004
  • Georgia Bishops Respond: "We Can Do Nothing, Maybe General Conference Delegates Can." - March 22, 2004
  • Great Summary of the Dammann Case - March 22, 2004
  • "Frankly, we in the Northwest are still in the minority, but it's a growing minority." - March 22, 2004
  • Homosexual Advocates Establish the PNW Reconciling Ministries Network "Dammann Fund" to Solicit Donations - March 22, 2004
  • 13 Clergy and 60-member Congregation Set De Facto Rules for 8-Million Member Denomination - March 22, 2004
  • UMC Layman in Dammann Conference Says Trial Outcome Could "Lead to Anarchy" - Will openly practicing polygamist pastors be next? What's wrong with a committed loving relationship with many spouses? 13 UMC clergy are liable to decide almost anything. - March 22, 2004
  • Conservative UMC Renewal Leaders Lament Dammann Trial Acquittal, While Most in the West Celebrate - So, what else is new? . . . been like this for many years now - March 22, 2004
  • Conservative UMC Leaders "Just Don't Get It:" Foolishly Looking to General Conference Legislation, Once Again, to Reign in Homosexual Advocates - March 22, 2004
  • Louisiana Conference Layman Say's "Enough is Enough" - March 22, 2004
  • Georgia Clergyman Responds To Current Crises In The UMC - March 22, 2004
  • Pro-homosexuality Bishop Declares A Day Of Worship And Celebration, UM Church Law Found Guilty, Practicing Lesbian Acquitted - March 21, 2004
  • Jury's Not-Guilty Statement is Regurgitation of Lesbian Pastor's Defense Counsel Spin - Lockstep talking points permeate entire wayward PNW conference - March 21, 2004
  • UM Bishop Proclaims Lesbian UM Pastor's Violation Of Church Law And Teaching Is Being Faithful To Church Law And Teaching - March 21, 2004
  • Jury in Lesbian Pastor Church Trial Pulls an O.J. - Not guilty?! She admitted her guilt in writing and just "married" her co-lesbian! - March 21, 2004
  • Professed Lesbian UM Pastor Found Not Guilty Of Being A Professed Lesbian UM Pastor By Her Pro-homosexuality Clergy Peers - March 20, 2004
  • Defense Questions Bishop On Lesbian Genitals And The Meaning Of  What The Word "Since" Is - March 20, 2004
  • Dammann's Lawyer Begs Jury to Uphold to Homosexual Agenda and Ignore Church Law - Does this remind you of the O.J. Simpson jury outcome? - March 20, 2004
  • UM News Service Journalist Makes Closing Arguments on Behalf of Fellow Homosexual Advocates - Journalist hypes credentials of homosexual advocate Bishop Jack Tuell to bolster his testimony - March 20, 2004
  • UM Lesbian Pastor's Attorney Accuses Jury Of Hate Crimes If They Rule According To Church Law - March 19, 2004
  • Homosexual Advocates Use Lesbians' 5-year-old Son as a Billboard - Will child abuse be the next charge filed? - March 19, 2004
  • Lesbian Pastor says she Challenged Church Doctrine to Benefit her Lover's Son - March 19, 2004
  • Lesbian Pastor's Defense Strategy is to Attack the Book of Discipline - March 19, 2004
  • "The [Book of Discipline] is faulty as written, to the point of being unenforceable" - March 19, 2004
  • Ms. Dammann was told, "It is not the law of the church that is on trial here" - March 19, 2004
  • UM Bishop Places Himself as an Authority Superior to UM General Conference - March 19, 2004
  • UM District Superintendent Observed Lesbian Pastor with Lesbian Lover in their Home Five Years Ago and Turned a Blind Eye - March 19, 2004
  • Dammann's Counsel Questions UM Bishop of Details of Lesbian "Genital Contact" - March 19, 2004
  • UM News Service Advocates Homosexuality through Biased News Coverage - Articles focus on lesbian pastor's defense spin while dissing church counsel - March 19, 2004
  • UM News Service Presents Homosexual Advocate's Irrelevant Testimonies while NOT Reporting Presiding Bishop's Overrulings - March 19, 2004
  • UM Boss Testifies Lesbian UM Pastor Is Honest And Local Church Has Benefited From Her Homosexuality - March 19, 2004
  • Lesbian UM Pastor Testifies, "She wasn't a lesbian, right before she declared herself a lesbian." - March 19, 2004
  • Feminists Queer Biblical Theorist Prof To Testify In Defense Of Lesbian UM Pastor - March 19, 2004
  • Dammann Homosexual Clergy Trial Begins Secular Media Covers Trial with Facts and Figures
    - while - UM News Service Covers Story as Journalists Favoring Homosexual Advocacy - March 18, 2004
  • Pro-homosexuality Terrorists "Links"?
  • UM Lesbian Pastor's Trial Side Show Slide Show  - March 18, 2004
  • PNW Conference Leadership Looks to Conference Homosexual Advocates to be "Peacekeepers" of the Conference Homosexual Advocates Engaging in Civil Disobedience - What a diverse crowd - Are there any Christians to be found? - March 18, 2004
  • Local Liberal Newspaper Observes that Pervasive Tolerance and Pluralism in the Book of Discipline is Opportunity for Loophole for Homosexual Clergy Advocates - March 18, 2004
  • IRD Observation of Dammann: How could such a "confused pastor . . .shepherd to her flock" - If tiny PNW conference withdrew entirely from UMC, resulting denomination membership loss would only be similar to typical annual shrinkage over past several decades - March 18, 2004
  • Lesbian minister's trial deepens Methodist divide - March 18, 2004
  • Trail Proceedings To Begin After Pro-homosexuality Protesters Agree To Publicity Arrests - March 18, 2004
  • City braces for church trial - Bothell hearing expected to draw hundreds - March 16, 2004
  • UM Conservative Leader Predicts Guilty Verdict in Dammann Trial - Judicial Council "will retain jurisdiction . . . to make sure the church does not make a mockery of the case" - March 16, 2004
  • United Methodist Social Action Org Urges Jury To Acquit The Guilty In Lesbian Pastor's Trial - March 15, 2004
  • UM Leaders Encourages Dammann Trial Jury To Nullify Church Law - March 15, 2004
  • Homosexual Org To Disrupt UMC Trial Of Active Lesbian Pastor - March 15, 2004
  • Lesbian Pastor Psychs up for her Clergy Trial by Marrying her Lesbian Partner; Says she Never Intended Never Intended to Grandstand the Homosexual Agenda - March 15, 2004
  • Karen Dammann trial questions and answers (UMNS) - March 3, 2004
  • Homosexual Insurgents Announce Attack On Church Trial Of Practicing UM Lesbian Pastor - March 2, 2004
  • Practicing UM Lesbian Pastor To Become Banner Of Homosexual Org's Jihad Against Christianity - March 2, 2004
  • 1st UMC Of Ellensburg Promotes Their Practicing Lesbian Pastor's Trial And Public Disobedience - March 1, 2004
  • Lesbian UM Pastor's Trial To Be Made A Public Spectacle To Promote Homosexuality - February 21, 2004
  • Lesbian UM Pastor Debacle Drags On -- Homosexual Advocates Disrupt Mainline Denominations One-at-a-time - February 7, 2004
  • Trial Date Set Again To See If Practicing Self-avowed Lesbian UM Pastor is Practicing Self-avowed Lesbian UM Pastor - February 5, 2004
  • Hand-picked Pro-homosexuality Jury To Determine If Openly Sexually Active And Publicly Professed UM Lesbian Pastor Is An Openly Sexually Active And Publicly Professed UM Lesbian Pastor - It will take 9 out of 13 pro-homosexuality jurors to convict - January 16, 2004
  • Investigation Committee Member Resigns And Active Lesbian UM Pastor To Go To Trial After Three Years - The jurors to be hand picked by the pro-homosexuality bishop! - January 14, 2003
  • Confessing Movement Theologian Says Pacific Northwest UM Officials Guilty Of Old-time Heresy - January 10, 2004
  • DC Pastor Protests–Obedience To Church Law Only For "Computers" Not Active Lesbian UM Pastors Or Pro-homosexuality Church Leaders - Now that is well "reasoned" argument - January 10, 2004
    + see poor child with his two lesbian moms/um pastor
  • Pro-homosexuality Annual Conference Officials Refuse To Try Open Lesbian Pastor, Again - December 18, 2003
  • UM Judicial Council Promises To Take Charge Of Disobedient Pro-homosexual Investigation Committee - November 8, 2003 - UCMPage.org Accountability Watch will be watching and waiting to see
  • Pacific Northwest Gay And Lesbian Clergy Outraged High Court Would Hold Them Accountable to Church Law - November 6, 2003
  • Pro-homosexuality UM Conference Leadership Assures Lesbian Pastor She'll Remain in Pulpit Indefinitely While Liberal-stacked Committees Play Games with Rules - October 29, 2003
  • Lesbian in the Pulpit: UMC Judicial Council ("supreme court") Expects Renegade Western Jurisdiction to Hold to Discipline and Remove Homosexual Clergy Appointment - In defiance, Council member makes pro-homosexual public statement in opposition to denomination's official position - October 29, 2003
  • Openly Lesbian Clergy Continues as Pastor of UM Church as her Cohorts Pursue Legislation at GC2004 to Keep her in Pulpit - October 29, 2003
  • UM High Court Rules Homosexually Active Lesbian Pastor Remains In Good Standing, Pro-homosexuality Lower Court Must Rule Again and Again Until They Get It Right....Right! - October 28, 2003
  • UM Judicial Council to Have One More Opportunity to Affirm Self-Declared Lesbian in the Pulpit - July 15, 2003
  • Pacific Northwest UM's To Lead The "Gay Way" For Denomination - June 21, 2003
  • Sexually Active Lesbian Pastor OK'd As UM Pastor Goes To Church High Court - March 3, 2003
  • UM Lesbian Pastors' Judicial "OK" Points to Homosexual War on Most Mainlines; PC USA Pastor Asks Liberals to Halt Their Assault on Christianity and Go Form Their Own Religion - February 25, 2003
  • Sexually Active Lesbian Commended After OK'd by UM Appeals Committee To Continue As Church Pastor - February 6, 2003
  • Gay minister will not face church trial: Appeals panel upholds ruling (Seattle Times) - February 3, 2003
  • Confessed Practicing Lesbian UM Pastor OK's To Stay As Pastor With Lesbian Lover By Disobedient Western Jurisdiction - February 2, 2003

  • Confessed Lesbian Pastor's Church Trial Acquittal By Pro-homosexuality Annual Conference To Be Visited Again By Pro-homosexuality Jurisdiction - January 19, 2002

  • Lesbian Pastor Looks Forward To Returning To UM Pastorate With "Wedded" Same-sex Lover And Her Illegitimate Child - September 20, 2002

  • Lesbian Pastor's "Good Standing" Decision Now Passed to the Western Jurisdiction Appeal Board Are there any leaders in that jurisdiction to stand for accountability? We'll See! - September 5, 2002

  • Inside the Minds of Others Re: Pacific North West Annual Conference and the Confessing Movement (Commentary) - September 5, 2002

  • Faithful UM Church To Withhold 100% Apportionments In Light Of Bishop's Unfaithfulness And Absence Of Denominational Discipline - September 3, 2002

  • Bishop May Revisit Dismissed Complaint Against Active Lesbian Pastor With Same-sex Lover, and Illegitimate Son Re-appointed To UM Church - August 10, 2002

  • Committee Dismisses Complaint Against Lesbian Pastor Living With Same-sex Lover and Illegitimate Son? (UMNS) - July 30, 2002

  • Self-avowed, Practicing Lesbian To Remain UM Pastor In Good Standing? CUMA, Is anybody home? - July 29, 2002

  • Several UM Churches Withhold Apportionments As They Band Together Against Pro-homosexuality Bishops - July 20, 2002

  • UM Bishop Refuses To Deal With Practicing Homosexual Pastor - July 20, 2002

  • New Complaints Bring New Calls For UM High Court Rulings By Bishop To Prolong His Illegal Homosexual Appointments - July 8, 2002

  • Church Law Forbids Ignoring Church Law—Ruling Requested In Active Homosexual Appointments - June 19, 2002

  • UM Good News Org Calls Dismissal A "Dodge" And "Lack Of Will" Of Investigators To Uphold Church Law - June 19, 2002

  • Dismissal Of Charges Against Openly Gay Pastor Prompts UM Conservative Good News Org To Pronounce Pro-homosexuality Bishops "Infidels" - June 14, 2002

  • United Methodist Church Dismisses Case of Practicing Gay Pastor (Christianity Today) - June 13, 2002

  • Homosexual Advocates Say "Outed" UM Gay Pastors Won't Be Convicted If They Refuse Questioning - June 7, 2002

  • Where Are Faithful Methodist To Turn In An Apostate Denomination?....The Bible (Michael's Sword) - June 4, 2002

  • Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual, and anti-Church UM's Rejoice Over Rulings That Allow Homosexually Active Clergy Despite Church Law Ban - June 4, 2002

  • Synopsis of PNW Gay Pastor Appointment - June 2, 2002

  • PNW in Total Apostasy? Questions: - June 2, 2002

  • Just a word of thanks....(satire) - June 2, 2002

  • Openly Gay Pastor "Not Guilty" Because Pro-homosexuality Committee Drops Charges, Continues In Pulpit - June 1, 2002

  • Homosexual Clergy And UM Orgs Rejoice Because UMC Ban On Homosexually Active Clergy Cannot Be Enforced - June 1, 2002

  • Gay minister won't lose post as pastor (Seattle Times) - June 1, 2002

  • Gay Methodist pastor will keep pulpit, church panel rules (Seattle PI)- June 1, 2002

  • UM High Court [Re-] Ruling To Allow Pro-homosexuality Bishops To Ignore Church Law Prohibition Of  Homosexually Active Clergy - May 2, 2002

  • ....a sign of the times - April 27, 2002

  • Loop Hole Widens: UM High Court Says, Openly Gay Pastors Can Stay! (if the bishops say, "yea") - April 27, 2002

    • Where is CUMA in all this?  They seem to have shrunk from their calling.

  • 1-800-METHODIST (Satire) - March 28, 2002 - March 28, 2002

  • Judicial Council To Consider Previous Anti-homosexuality Ruling Again, Again, And Again.... - March 28, 2002

  • UM Pacific Northwest Evangelicals Meet To Learn About Bible And Homosexuality Doctrine In Pro-homosexuality Conference - March 7, 2002

  • "Evangelicals push to meet with bishop about gay clergy"–The Evangelical/Homosexual Template (Parody) - January 15, 2002

  • Evangelicals UMs Push To Meet With Bishop About Undisciplined Homosexually Active Clergy - January 14, 2002

  • Liberal UM Minority: Theological Terrorists Of Sexual Perversion (Commentary) - December 21, 2001

  • Confessed Homosexual Pastor's "Loop Hole" Church Appointment Challenged With New Complaint - December 19, 2001

  • Complaints File Against Confessed Lesbian UM Pastor, Church Leader Suggests "Loop Hole" Possible  - December 19, 2001

  • Homosexual Pastors Remain in UMC Pulpits, While Pacific Northwest Pro-homosexual Leadership "Goes Through the Motions" of Disciplinary Actions - December 19, 2001

  • UM Pacific Northwest Evangelicals Remain Steadfast in Effort to Hold Pro-homosexual Church Leaders Accountable - December 14, 2001

  • Confessing Movement Meets With Western UM's To Confront Growing Schism Over Pro-homosexuality Disobedience - December 7, 2001

  • UM Bishops Prolong Church Appointments Of Practicing Homosexuals Who Jumped Through High Court "Loop Hole" By Asking For Another Day In Court - December 5, 2001

  • UM Pacific Northwest Evangelicals Head For "Show-down" With Pro-homosexuality Church Leaders - November 23, 2001

  • UM Pro-homosexuality Network Meets To Develop Strategy For Unholy War Against Church - Protest High Court Upholding Church Law - November 13, 2001

  • Unofficial Church Groups React To Judicial Council Ruling (UMNS) - November 8, 2001

  • Pacific NW UM Evangelicals Protest Annual Conference Declaring Christ, Heretical (Revised 11/3/01) - October 29, 2001

  • Unfaithful Bishop Guides Practicing Gay and Lesbian Clergy Through Loop Hole With New Church Appointments - November 2, 2001

  • Pro-Homosexuality UM Parents Celebrate High Court "Loop Hole" For Unfaithful Annual Conferences And Bishops - November 2, 2001

  • "Loop Hole" Homosexual Appointment Last Straw For Some UMs - November 2, 2001

  • High Court Rules Ban On Practicing Homosexual Clergy Stands, But Leaves Loop Hole For Un-faithful Pro-homosexuality AC's To Rule Such Clergy Fit - October 29, 2001

  • Evangelical UM Accountability Org Mails Brief In UM High Homosexual Clergy Court Case But Doesn't Show - October 29, 2001

  • UM High Court To Consider Issues Of Church Law Regarding Homosexuality Bishops Refuse To Enforce - October 24, 2001

  • Homosexual's Parents And UM's Of Color Exploit 9/11 Tragedy To Influence UM High Court Rulings - October 24, 2001

  • UM High Court To Decide If Pro-homosexuality Bishops Must Enforce Church Law's Prohibition Against Homosexually Active Clergy - September 28, 2001

  • Confessing Movement Association Formed Because Bishops Will Not Enforce Church Law's Prohibition Against Homosexually Active Clergy - September 28, 2001

  • UM High Court Rules Book Of Discipline Cannot Be Overruled By Pro-homosexuality Bishop, Conference, Jurisdiction - May 3, 2001

  • UM Bishop Needs Help From Church High Court To Define What The Meaning Of "Good Standing" Is For Clergy Practicing Sexual Immorality - June 18, 2001

  • UM High Court Rules Church Law Does Not Apply To Bishops - November 3, 1999

  • Church High Court Declares Homosexual Wedding Ban Constitutional - Reconciling and Confessing Annual Conferences Unconstitutional - November 2, 1998