I don’t diary very often – those that know me here know me primarily through comments. But I have occasionally referenced my Mom, a retired United Methodist pastor and former district superintendent and cabinet dean for the UMC in the Northern Illinois conference. My Kos tagline references the book she wrote and published last year about both her own experience of having been married to a closeted gay man (my dad) and how that experience affected her perceptions of the trial of Rev. Greg Dell in a similar UMC circus to the one she describes below more than a decade ago. Rev. Dell was my own pastor at the time.
I have since left the UMC- thinking the fight for GLBT equality there hopeless. She chose, bravely, to stay and fight. For the last year she has been very involved in the defense team for Rev. Amy DeLong, a UMC pastor who is set to go on trial for the UMC equivalent of heresy on June 21st. We are getting much closer to full legal equality for GLBT people in the U.S. – but in the battle for equality in the “Christian” community we still have a long way to go. Mom joined Daily Kos about a year ago, but hasn’t quite gotten the hang of Kosland herself yet – so her first diary here is coming from me.
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