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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.
Every county voted in favor of the amendment, with only the independent city of St. Louis voting against it. [4] The text of the adopted amendment, which is found at Article I, section 33 of the Missouri Constitution, states: That to be valid and recognized in this state, a marriage shall exist only between a man and a woman. [5]
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).
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 ...
[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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 couples immediately following the ruling.