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United Methodists Divided over LGBT Rights
The United Methodist Church is America's third largest faith group after the Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention, and like them, it's struggling over LGBT rights. That's become all too clear at this week's General Conference in Portland, Oregon.
By Warren Olney • • 9m ListenThe United Methodist Church is America's third largest faith group after the Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention, and like them, it's struggling over LGBT rights. That's become all too clear at this week's General Conference in Portland, Oregon.
Dr. Karen Oliveto is a lesbian and Senior Pastor at the Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. She's also one of 864 delegates from all over the world, and joins us to talk about the challenges of being a global religion in 2016.
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Paul von Zielbauer
Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times
Evan George
Director of Content, News
Karen Oliveto
Glide Church
The full episode
3 of 3Obamacare Gets a Health Check- 1:39EgyptAir Flight 804 Falls from the Sky
- 8:18A Health Check for Obamacare
- 42:25United Methodists Divided over LGBT RightsYou’re reading this