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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016 Methodists trying to avoid church split over gay rights By RACHEL ZOLL AP Religion Writer Struggling to avoid a split over gay rights, the top poli- cy-making body of the United Methodist Church on Wednes- day narrowly approved a full review of all church law on sexuality, amid an emotional meeting roiled by talk of schism. Delegates at the Method- ist General Conference, meet- ing in Portland, Oregon, voted 428-405 to delay all consid- eration of LGBT-related pro- posals. Instead, the delegates created a commission that will spend at least two years reviewing policy on the sub- ject, contained in the Meth- odist Book of Discipline, with the goal of developing a plan to address their differences. The denomination has 12.7 million members worldwide and is the third-largest faith group in the U.S. “We are at a precipice,” said Lonnie Chain, a dele- gate from the Northern Illi- nois Annual Conference, or church district, speaking in favor of forming the commis- sion. “There is urgency before us. The church might divide.” While other mainline Prot- estant groups, including the Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), have approved same-sex mar- riage, the Methodists have upheld a policy they adopted in 1972, calling same-gender relationships “incompatible with Christian teaching.” As gay rights gained accep- tance in broader society and in other churches, Method- ist LGBT advocates stepped up pressure for the denomi- nation to lift prohibitions on ordination for people with same-sex partners, along with a ban on gay weddings. How- ever, the denomination is on a more conservative path, with its greatest growth in the U.S. South and overseas, regions where conservative views pre- dominate. Of the 864 delegates at the Oregon meeting, 30 per- cent are from Africa. A recent survey by the church found about 54 percent of U.S. pastors and lay peo- ple in leadership roles agreed with the church restrictions on gays and lesbians, although only 41 percent of congregants held the same view. The Rev. Adam Hamilton, who leads Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, estimates two-thirds of Methodists are centrists who could live with those differences. But Meth- odist conservatives and liber- als have become even more polarized over the years, rais- ing questions about how they can stay in the same church. Matt Berryman, head of Reconciling Ministries Net- work, a Methodist LGBT advocacy group, said the com- mission plan “signals hope.” The Rev. Rob Renfroe, presi- dent of Good News, a caucus of evangelical Methodists, said the plan has “some potential to resolve our differences” but is “fraught with peril,” depend- ing partly on whether conser- vative views will be heard. Kaim takes new role at Cannon Beach Chamber Alzheimer caregiver The Daily Astorian CANNON BEACH — Laura Kaim is headed to the Cannon Beach Visitor Center after two years with EO Media Group as the advertising con- sultant with the Cannon Beach Gazette. Kaim will be the lead information specialist for the center starting May 31. During her tenure, she helped grow advertising sales in the South County for the Gazette, Sea- side Signal and Daily Asto- rian, as well as handling real estate advertising for all coastal publications. Kaim said she looks for- ward to “a return to chamber work.” She worked previously with the Seaside Chamber of Com- merce for seven years before coming to the coastal publica- tions. Her new job will consist of greeting visitors and answer- ing questions for those planning to come to Cannon Beach. “Laura’s background as an Laura Kaim owner of her own business in Seaside, and then seven years at the Seaside Chamber, gave her unique insight when consulting with her clientele for the Can- non Beach Gazette,” EO Media Group Advertising Manager Betty Smith said. “We will miss her sense of humor and creativ- ity and wish her well in her new adventure.” Kaim lives in Seaside with her husband, son and daugh- ter. “I have enjoyed getting to know Cannon Beach better through my sales work, and I’m excited to share that knowledge with visitors,” Kaim said. Record: There were nearly 2.3 million eligible voters Continued from Page 1A other states including Ken- tucky which also held a presi- dential primary on Tuesday. Gronke and Moore both said Oregon was likely able to exceed the million-vote mark because of excitement about Democratic presidential pol- itics. The matchup between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders racked up at least 551,230 votes. Write-in candi- dates received another 10,229 votes. But Democrat voters were not as excited with Tuesday’s contest as they were in 2008, when Obama, Clinton and the write-ins split 638,790 votes. Nor were they as excited about Clinton. Although she lost to Obama in 2008 by 116,000 votes, Clinton received 15,552 more votes then than she did Tuesday. She lost to Sanders 306,957 to 244,273 as of early Wednes- day afternoon. Moore said that although Donald Trump is already the presumptive Republican pres- idential nominee, nearly 35 AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally in Carson, Calif. Tuesday. percent of Republican voters cast their ballots for “anyone but Trump, which is a big issue for him.” There were nearly 2.3 mil- lion eligible voters in this year’s primary election. That included more than 100,000 new voters registered in 2016, according to the Secretary of State’s Ofice. Many of those voters were registered as a result of the state’s new auto- matic voter registration sys- tem, which took effect this THE DAILY ASTORIAN T HURSDAY E VENING A (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 year. Under the law, people who are eligible to vote are registered after they obtain or renew their driver’s licenses, permits or identiication cards. Oregon was the irst state to enact an automatic voter regis- tration law. It’s too early to know whether automatically reg- istered voters turned out in higher or lower percentages when compared with other voters. On Monday, the Portland nonproit Bus Project which pushed for automatic voter reg- istration claimed on its website that early ballot returns showed higher turnout among automat- ically registered voters. How- ever, Caroline Cowley of the Bus Project wrote in an email that the group will not in- ish analyzing the full election results until later this week. Gronke said many of the automatically registered vot- ers might have been excited to vote in this primary, because it was the irst time they received ballots and other election-re- lated mail from the state. The true test will be whether they continue to vote in future elec- tions, Gronke said. The high point for voter turnout, as a percentage of the total electorate, in Oregon elections remains the 1960s and 1970s when as many as 73 percent of registered voters went to the polls. The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. Hillary Borrud can be reached at 503-364- 4431 or hborrud@eomedia- group.com. class offered Saturday The Daily Astorian A “Living with Alzhei- mer’s: For Caregivers — Mid- dle Stage” workshop is 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Room 219, Columbia Hall, Clatsop Community College, 1651 Lexington Ave. In the middle stage of Alzheimer’s disease, those who were care partners now Shriners screening clinic set for children The Daily Astorian Shriners Hospital for Chil- dren in Portland is holding a screening clinic from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Colum- bia Memorial Hospital, 2111 Exchange St., to identify chil- dren from birth to age 18 who can beneit from orthopedic, cleft lip/palate and burn scar revision care. Shriners Hospitals treat those conditions as well as prob- lems with bones, joints or mus- cles, cerebral palsy, spina biida, scoliosis, hip, hand and foot dis- orders, club foot and skeletal growth abnormalities, regard- less of the families’ ability to pay. 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