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Thousands of congregations have left the United Methodist Church amid contentious debates over sexuality, including a dispute over whether to accept gay marriage and LGBTQ pastors.
More than 7,600 congregations, or about 25%, have broken off from the larger church in the past several years over disputes about LGBTQ rights and inclusivity, such as same-sex marriage and ...
Methodist churches in North Carolina and the nation are deeply split over the the ordination, marriage and spiritual standing of LGBTQ+ members. Almost 200 western NC Methodist churches leaving ...
The split was largely over LGBTQ issues. It’s official. These churches across the state will go their own way after the United Methodist Church approved the separation Tuesday. The split was ...
At the 2004 General Conference, some conservative Methodists proposed that the denomination split over the question of inclusion of LGBT people, a proposal which did not meet with wide approval. [4] In 2006, the organization became active in a dispute over a pastor's right to refuse membership to an LGBTQ churchgoer. [5]
The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church has voted to allow 261 churches to leave the denomination amid a schism over LGBTQ issues.
[126] [127] [128] However, on 25 April 2017, "In a 6-to-3 vote, the United Methodist Church’s highest court ruled that a married lesbian bishop, and those who consecrated her, had violated church law on marriage and homosexuality"; [129] the United Methodist Church held that she "is in violation of a church law barring the ordination of 'self ...
United Methodist rules forbid same-sex marriage rites and the ordination of “self-avowed practicing homosexuals,” but progressive Methodist churches and regional governing bodies in the U.S ...