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Network forms to support same-sex
covenant relationships

                    by United Methodist News Service

     An "action group" has been formed to support the right of United
Methodist clergy to celebrate same-sex covenant relationships.
     Called the Covenant Relationships Network (CORNET), the group was
organized this summer by Affirmation: United Methodists for Lesbian, Gay
and Bisexual Concerns.
     Network participants will continue to collect signatures for a
statement, "A Matter of Conscience," which protests the 1996 addition to
the denomination's Social Principles forbidding pastors and churches from
holding ceremonies celebrating homosexual unions.
     Recently the Rev. Jimmy Creech, pastor of First United Methodist
Church, Omaha, Neb., became the subject of a complaint after he
conducted a covenant service for a lesbian couple.
     CORNET plans to develop strategies and theological resources against
attempts to block United Methodists from being "in ministry for and with
all persons," according to the Rev. Jeanne Knepper, Affirmation co-
spokesperson.
     The CORNET web site is at http://www.umaffirm.org/cornet/

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