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Rick Huskey is an American minister. He was a co-founder of the United Methodist Gay Clergy Caucus, alongside
Gene Leggett Franklin Gene Leggett (1935–1987) was an American Methodist minister who was the first gay minister to be defrocked by the United Methodist Church for being homosexual, in 1971. Early life and family Franklin Gene Leggett was born on March 19 ...
, which later became known as Affirmation.


Activism

In 1971, Huskey and other college students started the Northfield Gay Liberation Front, which was one of the first publicly run
LGBT ' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity. The LGBT term is a ...
groups for college students. Huskey met
Gene Leggett Franklin Gene Leggett (1935–1987) was an American Methodist minister who was the first gay minister to be defrocked by the United Methodist Church for being homosexual, in 1971. Early life and family Franklin Gene Leggett was born on March 19 ...
at the 1972 General Conference in Atlanta for Methodist clergy. The two attempted to engage other delegates in conversations about homosexuality and the church though few delegates responded positively. The conference attendees issued the Hand Amendment, which was unfavorable to homosexual clergy. The following spring Huskey and Leggett traveled across the East Coast and started a network of gay and lesbian United Methodist clergy. At the 1976 United Methodist General Conference, Huskey served on the theological task force of the Gay United Methodists network.


Ministry

In 1974, after receiving his Doctor of Ministry degree from Chicago Theological Seminary, Huskey returned to Minnesota where he was an associate pastor at Good Samaritan United Methodist Church in Edina. In a discussion about pastoral appointments, Huskey told his bishop that he was gay and that he wanted to start a ministry for gay and lesbians in Minnesota. The bishop placed Huskey on "voluntary location" which removed him from his parish position. When Huskey was removed, over 100 gay men and lesbians were involved in a protest during the Minnesota Annual Conference ordination service to protest Huskey's removal. The protest was organized by Gene Leggett who had also lead similar protests in Southwest Texas Annual Conference sessions.


See also

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Karen Oliveto Karen Oliveto (born April 4, 1958) is an American bishop. She is the first openly lesbian bishop to be elected in the United Methodist Church. She was elected bishop on July 15, 2016, at the Western Jurisdictional conference. Her four-year term ...
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Paul Abels Paul Milford Abels (1937–1992) was an American Methodist minister who became the country's first openly gay minister with a congregation in a major Christian denomination. He served as pastor from 1973 to 1984 of the Washington Square Methodist ...
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Homosexuality and Methodism Methodist viewpoints concerning homosexuality are diverse because there is no one denomination which represents all Methodists. The World Methodist Council, which represents most Methodist denominations, has no official statements regarding sexu ...


References

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