LETTER from GREY MATTERS With ‘Green Light’ In Force, ICE Poster A Provocation To the Editor: Prominently displayed next to each of three cashier window signs at the Otsego County Department of Motor Vehicle office in Oneonta that explain how the new “Green Light” Law will be implemented in Otsego County are signs proclaiming the phone number of the ICE Tip Line. At the Cooperstown DMV office, there is an ICE Tip Line sign on the entrance door and there…
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‘WE REFUSE’ RESOLUTION PASSES First UM Votes No On ‘Traditional Plan’ By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Members of Oneonta’s First United Methodist congregation tonight approved a “We Refuse” resolution that rejects the United Methodist Church’s reaffirmation of prohibitions against gay marriage and gay pastors. The “We Refuse” resolution says the “Traditional Plan,” approved, 53 percent to 47 percent, at the UMC’s General Conference last February in St. Louis, is “incompatible with God’s all-inclusive love of and…
FIRST UM MARKS 30TH ANNIVERSARY Oneonta ‘Reconciling Congregation’ Ramps Up Vs. Ban On Gays By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – It will be a bittersweet celebration. On Sunday, May 5, Oneonta’s First United Methodist Church will celebrate its 30th anniversary as a “Reconciling congregation,” sanctioning same-sex weddings and gay clergy. But the milestone comes right as the United Methodist Church’s Judicial Council, the church’s legal arm, has agreed April 26 to mostly uphold a “Traditional Plan” approved by…