COVID-19: United Methodist Church minister who married gay couple dies
Rev. Dr. Larry Sonner waited about a week to turn himself in. The Methodist minister had married a lesbian couple the weekend before, in October 2014, going against the Protestant church’s doctrine. Other ministers had done so in the past, but they kept the unions quiet and the ceremonies secret. Larry saw a problem with their silence. If Methodists wanted to call themselves “inclusive,” he asked, how could they deny LGBTQ people the right to marry in their faith? On one hand, disobeying church rules could lead to grave consequences. He could lose health benefits. He could lose his st...
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