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United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — `United Methodist delegates on Friday repealed their church’s longstanding ban on the celebrations of same-sex marriages or unions by its clergy and in its churches. The ...
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.
May 5: The United Methodist Church votes to lift its ban on officiation of same-sex weddings and ordination of LGBT clergy. November 5: California and Colorado vote by referendum to repeal their state constitutional bans on same-sex marriage, formally repealing 2008 California Proposition 8 and 2006 Colorado Amendment 43, respectively.
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 ...
[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 ...
In 2005, the Methodist Church of Great Britain voted to allow a local option for ministers who wish to perform same-sex blessings, with a Church spokesperson stating that "We have decided, with the law changing in December, we as a Church need to provide guidance to our ministers, who will be allowed to take an individual decision as to whether ...
In a critical decision for the United Methodist Church budget in response to mounting financial stress caused by disaffiliations, the assembly adopted a committee report Friday morning ...