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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 ...
Methodist churches in North Carolina and the nation are deeply split over the the ordination, marriage and spiritual standing of LGBTQ+ members. Almost 200 western NC Methodist churches leaving ...
The United Methodist Church has been divided over whether to allow the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy since the denomination banned it in the Book of Discipline in 1972.
United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ...
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 ...
United Methodist rules forbid same-sex marriage rites and the ordination of “self-avowed practicing homosexuals,” but progressive Methodist churches and regional governing bodies in the U.S ...
[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 split was largely over LGBTQ issues. These churches across the state will go their own way after the United Methodist Church approved the separation Tuesday.