Perspective: We queer clergy begged our fellow Methodists to love us. They voted no.
By Hannah Adair Bonner Reverend Hannah Adair Bonner is the director of Frontera Wesley, a campus ministry at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. She is a graduate of Duke Divinity School, a queer clergywoman and an Ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church. March 1 at 8:37 AM Methodists discern what we believe and form our doctrine by talking to one another — through what we call holy conference.
But the prospects for the One Church Plan, which had an endorsement from the Council of Bishops, as well as progressive and conservative support, seemed good. Compared with the Simple Plan and the Traditional Plan , it was a moderate path. It would leave decisions about these issues up to individual churches and regional yearly conferences. It would keep us together while allowing for diversity.
When Tuesday came around, my friends and I held out hope that enough delegates might reconsider the moderate path — that they might be moved by the testimony they were hearing and touched by the love of God. But as it became clear that the body would pass the Traditional Plan, numbness set in.
After the final vote came in Tuesday evening, I walked around the stadium seats, checking in on the young adults I’d met over a decade of ministry and speaking at youth events. They were shattered, eyes wide and teary. I told them that this was not over; that we are in this together; that we have a future; that they are beloved.
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