A United Methodist congregation in North Carolina is garnering internal division and national attention over its leadership’s decision to fire a gay choir director.
Trinity United Methodist Church of Jacksonville fired Ryan Mould from the position of choir director, which he had held for about three years, in October reportedly due to his sexual orientation.
Since then, according to the United Methodist News Service, some have chosen to leave the congregation while the UMC North Carolina Conference stepped in to help mediate the situation.
“Conference leaders continue to be in conversation with the parties, offering conflict transformation resources in the continued work toward healing, faithfulness and justice,” stated the Conference, as quoted by UMNS.
Mould has gotten support from liberal pro-LGBT United Methodist groups like Reconciling Ministries Network, who argue that the firing is inconsistent with the denomination’s official stance on church leadership.
“The Book of Discipline, which holds governing policies for The United Methodist Church (The UMC), maintains that clergy cannot be ‘self-avowed, practicing homosexuals,'” argued RMN in a…
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