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More than 30 Colorado congregations to leave United Methodist Church in rift over gay marriage, clergy

The Methodist church’s Mountain Sky Conference elected the first openly LGBTQ bishop in 2016

Bishop Karen Oliveto spoke at Iliff ...
RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post
Bishop Karen Oliveto speaks at Iliff School of Theology, on April 26, 2017, in Denver. Oliveto is the Methodist church’s first openly gay bishop.
Noelle Phillips of The Denver Post.
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The United Methodist Church split is particularly bitter in the Mountain Sky Conference, which has a reputation within the denomination as one of the more liberal conferences and where its members elected the denomination's first openly gay bishop in 2016.
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