The Rev. Cedrick D. Bridgeforth’s Nov. 4 electn mak him the first openly gay Ain-Amerin man to be elected a bishop The Uned Methodist Church.
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- UNED METHODISTS ELECT ANOTHER GAY BISHOP, SET LIBERAL NEW DIRECTN
- UNED METHODIST CHURCH THAT OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE AND CLERGY WILL BREAK AWAY, FORM NEW RELIG GROUP: ‘WE ME TO AN IMPASSE THAT N’T BE BRIDGED’
- COMPLAT FILED AGAST GAY BISHOP'S NSECRATN
- UNED METHODISTS ELECT MARRIED GAY CLERGYMAN AMONG 13 NEW BISHOPS WHO REPRENT MANY OTHER FIRSTS
- UMC BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP FIANCE OF NOMATN'S L
- CHURCH THAT MA GAY MAN A BISHOP ACCED OF LETTG 'INMAT RUN ASYLUM'
- WTERN JURISDICTN ELECTS OPENLY GAY UNED METHODIST BISHOP
UNED METHODISTS ELECT ANOTHER GAY BISHOP, SET LIBERAL NEW DIRECTN
An openly gay Uned Methodist Church bishop who's a same-sex relatnship is facg a plat over a ntroversial msage she gave 2017 which she claimed J had bigotri and was ncerned about makg “an idol” out of Him. * umc gay bishop *
”Showg the new normal, a send openly partnered, gay activist bishop, Cedric Bridgeforth, was elected the Wtern Jurisdictn, and a third me historilly close to beg elected the Northeast, openly breakg longstandg l banng “self-avowed, practicg homosexual” clergy. The growg uc of gay activist bishops will creasgly refe the nomatn.
UNED METHODIST CHURCH THAT OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE AND CLERGY WILL BREAK AWAY, FORM NEW RELIG GROUP: ‘WE ME TO AN IMPASSE THAT N’T BE BRIDGED’
A breakup of the Uned Methodist Church over gay marriage and gay clergy won't be official until later this year but is wily expected to go through. * umc gay bishop *
But the gay activist bishops’ lavish, six-figure salari are subsidized annually by apportnments taken om Uned Methodist offerg plat across the untry. For the Global Methodist Church, would be a terrible mistake to thk that after we separate, we will no longer have to “al wh” or proactively addrs homosexualy or transgenrism. ”In July 2016, Oliveto beme the first openly gay bishop the UMC when the Wtern Jurisdictn unanimoly elected her bishop of the Mounta Sky Area, a regnal body that clus ngregatns Colorado, Montana, Utah, Wyomg and Idaho.
COMPLAT FILED AGAST GAY BISHOP'S NSECRATN
Cedrick Bridgeforth is the first openly gay Black bishop the Uned Methodist Church. He won the electn wh nearly 80 percent of the vote. * umc gay bishop *
"It is not lawful for the llege of bishops of any jurisdictnal or central nference to nsecrate a self-avowed practicg homosexual bishop, " read the cisn, as reported by the Uned Methodist News Service. "However, Oliveto remas bishop pendg new velopments om a “plat supervisg mtee” and the nomatn’s special ssn of General Conference, schled for next Febary, which the Church might adopt measur overturng the ban on noncelibate homosexual Michael Gryboski on Twter or FacebookFree Relig Freedom UpdatJo thoands of others to get the FREEDOM POST newsletter for ee, sent twice a week om The Christian Post.
Douglas Damron, senr pastor at Epworth Uned Methodist Church Toledo, issu me to the foreont last year after the UMC’s hight judicial body met Evanston and upheld strict prohibns agast same-sex marriage and the ordatn of gay clergy. While the new nomatn, which has yet to be named, will ntue to practice the ban on gay marriage and clergy, the UMC will beg the procs of removg rtrictive language om s the past, UMC clergy have faced disciple for performg same-sex marriag or intifyg as LGBTQ, but many progrsive church have flouted such prohibns for Rev. Uned Methodist bishops the Wtern Jurisdictn are facg a plat accg them of vlatg church law wh the nsecratn of the nomatn’s send openly gay and married bishop.
A Uned Methodist pastor South Carola has filed a plat agast all Wtern Jurisdictn bishops, accg them of vlatg church law wh the nsecratn of the nomatn’s send openly gay and married bishop.
UNED METHODISTS ELECT MARRIED GAY CLERGYMAN AMONG 13 NEW BISHOPS WHO REPRENT MANY OTHER FIRSTS
The Wtern Jurisdictn elects the Rev. Karen Oliveto the first openly gay bishop The Uned Methodist Church. * umc gay bishop *
Timothy McClendon of South Carola leads legat prayer before a vote to strengthen church bans related to homosexualy on the last day of the 2019 special General Conference St. McClendon has a filed a plat and ved others to sign on followg the nsecratn of the nomatn’s send openly gay and married bishop. The Uned Methodist Church still bans the officiatg of same-sex weddgs and the ordatn of “self-avowed practicg” gay clergy.
But McClendon’s plat is a remr that tradnalists who support the nomatn’s current stance on homosexualy rema part of the nomatn. Bridgeforth, an Ain Amerin, is the first openly gay man to be elected bishop The Uned Methodist Church. The Wtern Jurisdictn, which has long opposed nomatnal bans related to LGBTQ dividuals, prevly elected Bishop Karen Oliveto — the nomatn’s first openly gay and married bishop.
After Oliveto’s electn and nsecratn 2016, the Judicial Council — the nomatn’s top urt — led that the nsecratn of a gay bishop vlat church law. The special General Conference 2019 also passed legislatn that prohibs bishops “om nsecratg bishops who are self-avowed practicg homosexuals, even if they have been duly elected.
UMC BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP FIANCE OF NOMATN'S L
McClendon, a legate at the 2019 General Conference, ma the motn for the vote that ultimately passed the Tradnal Plan, which clud that and other legislatn affirmg the church’s current bans related to noncelibate gay clergy and same-sex weddgs. A married gay clergyman om California was among 13 new bishops elected by Uned Methodist legat to five regnal U. The electn of Cedrick Bridgeforth marks the send time The Uned Methodist Church’s Wtern Jurisdictn has elected an LGBTQ clergyperson spe the nomatn’s ban on gay misters.
CHURCH THAT MA GAY MAN A BISHOP ACCED OF LETTG 'INMAT RUN ASYLUM'
After an electoral impasse emerged between a clergywoman om the strongly tradnalist Wtern Pennsylvania Conference and a dynamic, openly gay clergyman om the New England Conference, legat voted to postpone electn of a send bishop until 2024. Cedrick Bridgeforth, a Black, openly gay, married clergyman om Los Angel, has emphasized learship excellence and tn his mistry.
4, 2022, shortly after beg elected by legat of the Wtern Jurisdictn to be the first openly gay black bishop The Uned Methodist Church.
WTERN JURISDICTN ELECTS OPENLY GAY UNED METHODIST BISHOP
Bridgeforth, who has served as the California-Pacific Conference’s director of novatn and munitn, beme the first openly gay Ain Amerin bishop the UMC. ”Bridgeforth’s electn go agast the UMC Book of Disciple, which prohibs the ordatn of “self-avowed practicg homosexuals, ” and th do not allow them to bee Christian Post reached out to the Wtern Jurisdictn for ment, however, a spokperson explaed that they were unable to rpond by prs time due to travel schl and Lomperis of the Instute on Relign & Democracy, who has served as a UMC General Conference legate the past, viewed Bridgeforth's electn as part of a broar shift among UMC learship to embrace views that are ntrary to tradnal Christian teachg. ”For the past several years, the UMC has been embroiled a divisive bate over whether to change s official l barrg same-sex marriage and noncelibate homosexual ordatn.