Decision Number 837

SUBJECT TO FINAL EDITING


October 29, 1998

Decision


The decision of Bishop William B. Oden in the North Texas Annual Conference is affirmed that in order to legally define "self-avowed practicing homosexual", the definition must include identification of the persons or groups to whom the self-acknowledgment is to be made.

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