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[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 ...
It took just a few days for United Methodist delegates to remove a half-century's worth of denominational bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriages. It took decades of activism for a change that ...
On Marriage: In 2014, the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted to change its definition of marriage, allowing its pastors to officiate same-sex marriages wherever gay marriage is legal. In addition, by a vote of 429–175, leaders of the 1.76 million-member Church voted during the biennial General Assembly in Detroit to change the denomination's ...
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
BRIDGETON — Several United Methodist churches in South Jersey who disagree with new, progressive policies on same-sex marriages and gay clergy say the state conference is making it too difficult ...
While self-identified theological liberal organizations such as the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), support same-sex marriage, other more conservative and or orthodox organizations including some Mennonite churches, the Church of the Brethren, the Old Catholic Church, [23] and the Church of Sweden [24] also support marriage rights for ...
Mark Hipps-Figgs offers a prayer request during a service of Elizabeth Street United Methodist Church on Sunday, July 31, 2022, in Durham, N.C. Mark and Maxie Hipps-Figgs were the first gay couple ...
According to polling from Pew Research, the majority of United Methodists in the US support the inclusion of homosexual persons, 60 percent of United Methodists said "homosexuality should be accepted by society", and 40 percent supported same-sex marriage. [133] The United Methodist Church previously prohibited same-sex unions. [134]