Beth Stroud reacts to applause from the congregation at Turning Point United Methodist Church in Trenton, N.J. on Sunday, May 12, 2024. Pastor Rupert Hall said, “The United Methodist Church stripped Beth of her credentials to be a pastor, and her name is known throughout the world as a martyr for those of God’s children who call themselves and who are identified in the LGBTQ community.” There were cheers when Hall said Stroud now had a chance for reinstatement. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)
The Turning Point United Methodist Church is seen in Trenton, N.J., on Monday, May 13, 2024. Earlier this month, delegates at a United Methodist conference struck down longstanding anti-LGBTQ bans and created a path for clergy ousted because of them to seek reinstatement. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)
Beth Stroud stands for a portrait outside Turning Point United Methodist Church in Trenton, N.J., on Sunday, May 12, 2024. Stroud was defrocked from her job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia 20 years ago. In a church trial, she was found guilty of violating Christian teaching because she acknowledged living in a committed relationship with another woman. Earlier this month, delegates at a United Methodist conference struck down longstanding anti-LGBTQ bans and created a path for clergy ousted because of them to seek reinstatement. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)
A stained-glass window depicts Jesus at Turning Point United Methodist Church in Trenton, N.J. on Monday, May 13, 2024. Earlier this month, delegates at a United Methodist conference struck down longstanding anti-LGBTQ bans and created a path for clergy ousted because of them to seek reinstatement. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)
Beth Stroud, center, attends a service at Turning Point United Methodist Church in Trenton, N.J. on Sunday, May 12, 2024. Stroud was defrocked from her job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia 20 years ago. In a church trial, she was found guilty of violating Christian teaching because she acknowledged living in a committed relationship with another woman. Earlier this month, delegates at a United Methodist conference struck down longstanding anti-LGBTQ bans and created a path for clergy ousted because of them to seek reinstatement. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)
Misty Lammons, a member of Turning Point United Methodist Church in Trenton, N.J., hugs Beth Stroud during a service on Sunday, May 12, 2024. Stroud was defrocked from her job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia twenty years ago. In a church trial, she was found guilty of violating Christian teaching because she acknowledged living in a committed relationship with another woman. Earlier this month, delegates at a United Methodist conference struck down longstanding anti-LGBTQ bans and created a path for Stroud and other clergy ousted because of them to seek reinstatement. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)
Beth Stroud and the Rev. Rupert Hall, pastor of Turning Point United Methodist Church in Trenton, N.J., embrace before a service on Sunday, May 12, 2024. “You guys may not realize this, but for the last 15 or so years, we have been blessed to have — as a loving, supportive, active member of Turning Point — a rock star,” Hall said during the service. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)
FILE - The Rev. Jimmy Creech of Omaha, Neb., wipes a tear away at a news conference Thursday March 12, 1998 at the First United Methodist church in Kearney, Neb. Creech, 53, pleaded innocent to charges that he held an unsanctioned liturgy and disobeyed United Methodist Church rules by conducting a lesbian unity ceremony in his church in Omaha in September 1997. Jurors at a church court removed his clergy credentials in 1999. (Brad Norton/Kearney Hub via AP)
Beth Stroud sheds a tear pondering what reinstatement would mean 20 years after she was defrocked from her job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia, Sunday, May 12, 2024, at Turning Point United Methodist Church in Trenton, N.J. Delegates at a United Methodist conference recently struck down longstanding anti-LGBTQ bans and created a path for clergy ousted because of them to seek reinstatement. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)
Beth Stroud stands for a portrait outside Turning Point United Methodist Church in Trenton, N.J., on Sunday, May 12, 2024. Stroud was defrocked from her job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia 20 years ago. In a church trial, she was found guilty of violating Christian teaching because she acknowledged living in a committed relationship with another woman. Earlier this month, delegates at a United Methodist conference struck down longstanding anti-LGBTQ bans and created a path for clergy ousted because of them to seek reinstatement. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)
FILE - Rev. Amy DeLong, left, speaks to the media at Peace United Methodist Church in Kaukauna, Wis. Thursday, June 23, 2011 during jury deliberations in her church trial for conducting a same-sex union. She was suspended from ministry for 20 days. In 2019, she watched the bans upheld once more. By 2021, she was done. After nearly a quarter of a century as a UMC minister, DeLong took early retirement. (Sharon Cekada/The Post-Crescent via AP, File)
A cross and open Bible are seen at the altar at Turning Point United Methodist Church in Trenton, N.J. on Monday, May 13, 2024. Earlier this month, delegates at a United Methodist conference struck down longstanding anti-LGBTQ bans and created a path for clergy ousted because of them to seek reinstatement. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)