One half of the Indigo Girls, Emily Saliers, is scheduled to speak with her father, minister Don Saliers, at the upcoming United Methodist Women’s Assembly in Anaheim, but now there’s a movement afoot to get her disinvited because she’s a lesbian. Saliers and her dad coauthored a book in 2004 about religion and music called A Song to Sing, a Life to Live. The two are due to speak to the assembly about music’s place in spirituality, and not, as it happens, about Salier’s sex life. But the Renew Network, the evangelical Methodist group leading the opposition, still doesn’t want a “practicing lesbian” in their midst.

Invitation to lesbian artist sparks Methodist dispute [The Mercury News]

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