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• OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS
• THE UNED METHODIST QUEER CLERGY CC (UMQCC) IS MA UP OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND TERSEX PEOPLE WHO ARE LLED, MISSNED, AND ORDAED CLERGY THE UNED METHODIST CHURCH. 
• DEFYG CHURCH BAN, DOZENS OF METHODIST CLERGY E OUT AS GAY AND LBIAN
• METHODIST MISTER OUT AS GAY DURG SERMON. HERE'S WHY SHE'S CHALLENGG THE CHURCH
• UNED METHODIST CHURCH MOV TO ALLOW LGBT CLERGY AND GAY MARRIAGE
• LGBTQ UNED METHODIST LEARS GUTTED BY CHURCH'S ANTI-GAY CISN
• 500 CLERGY SUPPORT GAY UNED METHODIST CLERGY WHO ME OUT
• UNED METHODIST NSERVATIV TAIL BREAKAWAY PLANS OVER GAY CLN
• HOLY HISTORY: GAY PASTORS NFIRMED TO SENR POSNS THEY WERE ONCE NIED

OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS

One-fifth of Uned Methodist ngregatns the Uned Stat have received permissn to leave the nomatn over disagreements over same-sex marriage and gay preachers. This year alone, 4, 172 ngregatns left, acrdg to an unofficial tally by Uned Methodist News the church forbids the marriage or ordatn of “self-avowed, practicg homosexuals, ” many church and nferenc fy those bans. Conservativ May 2022 officially lnched a new Global Methodist Church, where they plan to mata and enforce bans on thgs that clu gay misters and same-sex weddgs.

Recent shifts the church2019: A vote by a General Conference was the latt of several recent s that rerced the church’s ban on gay clergy and marriage.

Many wh the nomatn are seekg to reverse bans on the ordatn of gay and lbian misters and officiatns of gay weddgs.

THE UNED METHODIST QUEER CLERGY CC (UMQCC) IS MA UP OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND TERSEX PEOPLE WHO ARE LLED, MISSNED, AND ORDAED CLERGY THE UNED METHODIST CHURCH. 

LGBTQ+ rponseWhile some partg church allow LGBTQ+ members, ’s an unacceptable double standard when they let LGBTQ+ people attend their servic but refe to marry them, said Sonja Feist, print of the Topeka chapter of Parents, Fay and Friends of Lbians and told The Capal-Journal she didn't see how a church that bans same-sex marriage n claim to be welg to gay people. The Uned Methodist Queer Clergy Cc (UMQCC) is ma up of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex people who are lled, missned, and ordaed clergy the Uned Methodist Church. The Church “implor fai and church not to reject or nmn lbian and gay members and iends.

Homosexualy was first openly bated at General Conference 1972, four years after the formatn of The Uned Methodist Church, rultg the addn of first statement on homosexualy. While affirmg belief that persons of homosexual orientatn are persons of sacred worth who need the mistry and guidance of the church, the statement add that the church “do not ndone the practice of homosexualy and nsirs this practice patible wh Christian teachg.

Sce that time, the church has mataed the posn that “the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg. Based on the posns about homosexual practice and marriage, the Church has also mataed rtrictns regardg clergy. Pastors may not be “self-avowed, practicg homosexuals” and may not nduct ceremoni that celebrate same-sex weddgs or unns.

DEFYG CHURCH BAN, DOZENS OF METHODIST CLERGY E OUT AS GAY AND LBIAN

Wh a body of over 12 ln members globally, Uned Methodists are not of one md about how to be mistry wh lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. Some members feel strongly that the church should uphold s current stanc regardg gay clergy and marriage.

While the church has official statements regardg homosexualy, all members n disagree wh the church’s posns and n advote for change policy. In 2019, a special ssn of General Conference met specifilly to addrs ongog, unrolved divisns regardg homosexualy. Its cisns strengthened rtrictns on ordatn (broang the fn of "self-avowed, practicg homosexual" the footnote to ¶304.

One was to clare an abeyance (lay) on submtg or procsg plats related to homosexualy until after a procs for separatn had been approved and the nomatns that may rult om uld hold their first post-separatn General Conferenc. The agreement about abeyance, though, beme effective immediately among s signers, and many other bishops the Uned Stat have likewise agreed to hold homosexualy-related plats agast clergy abeyance until after a post-separatn Uned Methodist General Conference 2028 term what new polici, if any, will be.

METHODIST MISTER OUT AS GAY DURG SERMON. HERE'S WHY SHE'S CHALLENGG THE CHURCH

The impasse over homosexualy has led to uncertaty about the Church’s future. Church l bar "self-avowed, practicg homosexuals" om mistry.

Dozens of Uned Methodist clergy members me out as lbian, gay or bisexual on Monday, fyg their church’s ban on “self-avowed practicg homosexuals” servg mistry and sentially darg their supervisors to disciple them. This is the first Methodist General Conference sce the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage 2015.

UNED METHODIST CHURCH MOV TO ALLOW LGBT CLERGY AND GAY MARRIAGE

In addn to gay and lbian clergy, the letter was also signed by tersex and transgenr pastors, who are not technilly exclud om mistry. Monday’s missive follows a siar letter issued by 15 Methodist misters New York, who also openly acknowledged that they are gay or lbian. The Uned Methodists’ Book of Disciple stat that all people are of “sacred worth” but nounc the “practice of homosexualy” as “patible wh Christian teachg.

Openly gay and lbian clergy members n be removed om mistry. In some parts of the Uned Stat, cludg Baltimore and New York, openly gay clergy serve wh few if any rtrictns. For s, liberal Methodists have tried – and failed – to change church l on homosexualy, and may prove impossible aga at this month’s General Conference.

Durg a sermon at her church Edgerton, Kansas, she me out as gay. The UMC currently do not allow "self-avowed practicg" gay people to be ordaed, or same-sex marriag, and Meyer said her relatnship "will seem to some to challenge church policy". A statement sent to Christian Today on January 8 om Bishop Stt Jon, who overse Meyer, said that her g out as "a self-avowed, practicg homosexual" is a chargeable offence for clergy the UMC, and that a "supervisory rponse procs" began on January 7.

LGBTQ UNED METHODIST LEARS GUTTED BY CHURCH'S ANTI-GAY CISN

"While many persons wh The Uned Methodist Church disagree wh the le that says persons who are self-avowed, practicg homosexuals may not be ordaed and may not be appoted as pastors, the le is currently effect, " the statement add. Activists want what they nsir "discrimatory language" the Book of Disciple – the law and doctre of the UMC updated every four years – to be removed, for gay and lbian misters to be ordaed, and for same-sex weddgs to be performed UMC church. RelatedMeet Allyson Robson, the first openly transgenr Baptist misterExplaer: How the Bible spls Christians on homosexualyFive bad reasons to oppose same-sex marriage...

And some approach that might make more senseHow evangelils are rpondg to creased acceptance of homosexualyGay marriage is legal the US. Through what he scrib as "anti-gay polici", Berryman said the UMC is "seen to be ntributg to the harm mted agast margalized persons society – the very folks Christ lled the church to be mistry wh. Todd Seifert, munitns director for the Great Plas Conference of The Uned Methodist Church – which has thory over clergy Meyer's area – told Christian Today that "there is no way to know how the General Conference will vote" May, but that is the only body that n change the worldwi Church's stance on whether openly gay people n serve as ordaed clergy.

500 CLERGY SUPPORT GAY UNED METHODIST CLERGY WHO ME OUT

Kimberly Stt about last week's meetg of the Uned Methodist Church's Council of Bishops and s impedg vote on whether to orda gay pastors.

The Uned Methodist nomatn has over 6 ln members the Uned Stat, and they're divid over the qutn of ordag gay misters. She left the church for seven years and me back to be s first Black, female, openly gay pastor, and she jos now om Phoenix. KIMBERLY SCOTT: Thank you, So this bate over ordag gay clergy has been gog on for a while, sce the late '60s.

UNED METHODIST NSERVATIV TAIL BREAKAWAY PLANS OVER GAY CLN

And then the other part was always send-gusg myself - whether or not I was supposed to be open about my sexual orientatn, whether or not I was supposed to play the game of don't ask, don't Jt so that I'm clear, is the church's official stance on homosexualy today ambiguo or is pretty clearly fed and you'd like to see changed? It clearly stat that you nnot be an openly-practicg homosexual and be ordaed the Uned Methodist Church.

It also stat that although all human begs are of sacred worth, homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg.

S., church have gone beyond what the Book of Disciple says to make the church open and accsible to gay and lbian clergy like Do you know other pastors who aren't as open as you or haven't been able to be as open as you - have ma this choice to keep this important si of their liv quiet or secret om their ngregatns? The bate around homosexualy is not somethg that most Ain and third-world untri are - really re about. A mtee wh the Uned Methodist Church has affirmed a proposal on acceptg LGBT clergy and gay marriage.

HOLY HISTORY: GAY PASTORS NFIRMED TO SENR POSNS THEY WERE ONCE NIED

Gay clergy and same-sex marriage may be allowed at Uned Methodist Church thanks to a proposal drafted by the Connectnal Table, a rpected ternatnal body of clergy members and lay people the church. On Tuday, the mtee affirmed the proposal to remove church legislatn that punish clergy for beg “self-avowed practicg homosexuals” or officiatg gay weddgs, the Uned Methodist Church News Service reported.

If passed, clergy members would not face punishment, church trials or be ocked if they officiated same-sex weddgs or me out as gay.