The Young People's Choir, the first choir ever to be formed out of General Conference (seems crazy, doesn't it? You would have thought that we'd have a ton...), performed in worship tomorrow along with the Africa University Choir and a church choir. The morning was about racism, we watched a video explaining white privilege (you'd like it, Dad...and Jerry DeVine speaks in it!) We had a report from Africa University...they are doing awesome work and would like to continue receiving their apportionments. The choir, as always, rocked. They performed "Africa Will be Saved"...and then substituted in "America"...and then "The Methodist Church." Way to go, choir! Brilliance, whoever had that idea.
And then on to legislation...the homosexuality discussions have started. I don't want to clog up the whole blog (haha...clog the blog...) with a bunch of ranting posts, so refer to the "Open Hearts? Open Minds? Open Doors?" post and all comments. I will tell everyone that we passed a resolution speaking against homophobic discrimination and violence. It's the violence that carried it...but the language does speak against all discrimination. Some people raised the issue of our not ordaining openly practicing gays...would this resolution contest that?
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