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The 523-161 vote to approve a section of the church's Revised Social Principles took place at the General Conference of the United Methodist Church in the penultimate day of their 11-day legis.
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 ...
The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), the second largest Lutheran church body in the United States, does not permit same-sex marriage and does not ordain homosexuals. [82] The LCMS Synodical President Gerald Kieschnick was present to register the objections of the LCMS to the ordination of homosexuals at the ELCA Churchwide Assembly in ...
In 2018, at the United Methodist Church General Conference, leaders rejected the One Church Plan, which would have eased restrictions on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriages.
[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 ...
The provision was tacked onto another House bill by a 100–51 vote. [59] The bill died due to sin dine (adjourned) of the Missouri General Assembly. On April 12, 2022, the house passed a bill to ban transgender individuals from female sports and athletic teams (a similar bill passed in the same House chamber last year).
A vote by a 2019 General Conference was the latest of several in recent decades that reinforced the church's ban on gay clergy and marriage. But that vote also prompted many local conferences to ...
In response to this ruling, St. Louis County also began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. On November 7, 2014, a federal court struck down Missouri's same-sex marriage ban but stayed its order directing Jackson County to issue licenses to same-sex couples. Despite the stay, Jackson County began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex ...