President Clinton's church to hold homosexual 'celebration' By John H. Adams The Layman Online Monday, September 13, 1999 Sharing Our Rainbow of Light (SOROL), an interdenominational alliance affirming gay, lesbian, bisexual and "transgendered" persons, will hold its fourth biennial conference Nov. 11 at historic Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C. Foundry Methodist, which has hosted previous SOROL conferences, is the home church of President and Mrs. Clinton. In June, the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman, Foundry's pastor, spoke to the Witherspoon Society during the 1999 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Wogaman, who counseled Clinton after the president's affair with Monica Lewinsky, then described Clinton as a "moral man." Wogaman is the author of From the Eye of the Storm: A Pastor to the President Speaks Out, a book that describes his relationship with the president. An advocate of same-sex "holy unions," Wogaman will be one of the speakers at the SOROL conference. He recently called on his denomination to sanction homosexual activity. Besides Wogaman, the speakers at the SOROL conference will be: Reverend John Shelby Spong – Episcopal bishop of New Jersey, gay rights advocate and self-proclaimed heretic. Spong has renounced his belief in the essence of biblical Christianity. Dr. Virginia Ramey Mollenkott – Lesbian religious scholar whose 1978 book, Is the Homosexual My Neighbor, contends that Sodom was destroyed because of "inhospitality to strangers." She is often quoted by homosexual activists. Dr. Mollenkott is a leader in the Christianity "re-imagining" movement that features lesbian affirmation, new-age mysticism, and worship of a female godhead (Sophia). A Methodist bishop labeled the movement "the worst heresy in [the last] 1,500 years of Christianity." The General Assembly of the PCUSA declared the movement "beyond the boundaries" of the Christian faith. Rev. Jimmy Creech – United Methodist pastor under suspension for defying the church's ban on performing homosexual "marriages."

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