This morning, NPR ran a story about Irene Stroud, an openly lesbian minister in the United Methodist Church (my alma mater as a kid) who will soon face a trial by church leaders to determine whether she is allowed to keep preaching, or be defrocked.
My own take is that churches should be allowed to set whatever rules they want on who's allowed to be in the clergy - even if the rules are stupid - and folks who don't abide by them can find a church more amenable to their practices.
But that's not my main point. If you listen to the NPR story, they repeatedly refer to Irene as a Self-Avowed Practicing Homosexual, which is very nearly a hilarious acronym. I wonder if they did that on purpose?
