The Kentucky annual conference of the United Methodist Church is underway in Owensboro and on the first day, more than half of them disaffiliated. Todd Nelson, the senior pastor at Lexington’s First United Methodist Church, was there, and said a rule change at the most recent national general conference allowed the exits.
“And to do that you had to say you, you disagreed kind of with our trajectory that the United Methodist Church is heading that would be affirming of same sex marriage, and as a result would be inclusive of gay and lesbian clergy who are who are married.”
