The United Methodist Church’s Book of Discipline reads: “The practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching.” For Ann Brown, those words are unjust and outdated. She and 50 other volunteers from Foundry United Methodist Church in Northwest D.C. traveled to the denomination’s General Conference in Tampa, Fla., this week to try to change the church’s stance on homosexuality. Brown heads Foundry’s LGBT Inclusion and Advocacy Ministry Team; The historic church adopted the cause in 2010, when it also voted to support same-sex weddings. A finance lawyer originally from Mobile, Ala., Brown lives in the District with her husband and has two children in college.

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