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The latter decision appeared to UMC LGBT proponents to contradict both the Constitution and membership policies of the United Methodist Church which stipulate that membership shall be open to all persons "without regard to race, color, national origin, status or economic condition." The Judicial Council had previously found that the word ...
The 667-54 vote, coming during their legislative General Conference, removes some of the scaffolding around the United Methodist Church's longstanding bans on LGBTQ-affirming policies regarding ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Leaders of the United Methodist Church are holding their first international conference in nearly a decade this week, tackling such divisive issues as gay marriage, ordaining ...
The United Methodist Church overturned its 40-year ban on gay clergy Wednesday, during a meeting of the church’s top legislative body in Charlotte, North Carolina.
And it imposed a moratorium on any church judicial processes seeking to discipline any clergy for violating LGBTQ-related rules. In addition, the General Conference took actions toward being openly LGBTQ-affirming. It repealed a longstanding ban on any United Methodist entity using funds “to promote the acceptance of homosexuality.”
Meanwhile, the Reconciling Ministries Network seeks to change the United Methodist Church's current teaching on homosexuality in order to make the church more inclusive of LGBTQ people. [87] At the 2008 General Conference of the United Methodist Church, it was decided that the Church would retain its views on homosexuality. [88]
United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ...
In 1925, Canadian Methodist Church, Canada, Congregationalists and some churches of the Presbyterian Church in Canada united to form the United Church of Canada. [143] Within the United Church of Canada, congregations decide if they are Affirming or if they perform same sex marriages.