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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — 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.. But when asked at a ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — `United Methodist delegates on Friday repealed their church’s longstanding ban on the celebrations of same-sex marriages or unions by its clergy and in its churches.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 ...
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 ...
United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ...
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.
On May 3, 2024, the General Conference of the United Methodist Church voted to remove prohibitions against same-sex marriages, allowing congregations and clergy to celebrate same-sex marriages. [ 128 ] [ 129 ] The vote does not require clergy to perform same-sex marriages, but gives clergy the option to perform same-sex weddings if they choose ...
In a 692-51 vote, church leaders passed several rules without debate, including overturning both its ban on gay clergy and the penalties for holding same-sex marriages, according to the United ...
[125] [126] [127] 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"; [128] the United Methodist Church held that she "is in violation of a church law barring the ordination of 'self ...