Annie Britton, a United Methodist who was barred from ordination because she married a woman, joined Church within a Church.
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Believers divided on rules for clergy
Methodist finds another path
Annie Britton, a United Methodist who was barred from ordination because she married a woman, joined Church within a Church.
(SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF)
The day after Annie Britton married another woman, she went to church. It was not just any church, but a church in Southeastern Massachusetts that she had been leading in worship while preparing for ordination in the United Methodist Church, a denomination that does not allow noncelibate gays and lesbians to be ordained. (Full article: 815 words)
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