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Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ Plus Issues: African Methodist Episcopal Church (Human Rights Campaign)

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A compiled reference page on the African Methodist Episcopal Church's stance on LGBTQ issues. Quotes Bishop Richard Franklin Norris' August 2003 statement that the official position of the church is not in favour of the ordination of openly gay persons to the ranks of clergy. States that at the church's July 2004 national convention delegates voted unanimously to prohibit ministers from performing a marriage or civil union ceremony for a same-sex couple, the first vote on the subject by a predominantly African American denomination, quoting the Reverend Gregory G. Groover Senior's explanation from the Boston Globe of 10 February 2004 that the church's first call is to hear the voice of God in Scripture.

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An advocacy organisation's compiled reference page, used because the church's own Book of Discipline could not be located hosted as readable text at a stable public address; the page names and dates its own sources, a bishop's statement and a named newspaper report, rather than asserting the position unattributed.
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Cited for the African Methodist Episcopal Church's sexuality-position and its detail.
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Human Rights Campaign
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https://www.hrc.org/resources/stances-of-faiths-on-lgbt-issues-african-methodist-episcopal-church
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This source names Boston directly: "Groover Senior's explanation from the Boston Globe of 10 February 2004 that the church's first call is to hear the voice of God in Scripture."

Source Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ Plus Issues: African Methodist Episcopal Church (Human Rights Campaign)
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  • Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
  • Denominations, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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