The Wtern Jurisdictn of the Uned Methodist Church promoted an openly gay clergyman to the rank of bishop fiance of their l prohibg the ordatn of "practicg homosexuals."
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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
- OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS
- UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'
- UNED METHODISTS ELECT ANOTHER GAY BISHOP, SET LIBERAL NEW DIRECTN
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. 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. After all, this regn’s anarchic fiance of the UMC’s official bans on gay weddgs and non-celibate gay clergy has spread to the pot of two of s five active bishops beg openly partnered gay activists.
OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS
This rolutn, which was ultimately adopted the Southeast after the word “ms” was replaced wh “aspir” one place, nounc ntued Uned Methodist disapproval of gay weddgs as “harmful, ” disurag enforcement of the UMC’s on-paper prohibns of gay weddgs and non-celibate gay clergy, urg church lears to “support, empower, and amplify the voic of the LGBTQIA+ muny The Uned Methodist Church, ” and enurag limg electns of new bishops to dividuals mted to this agenda. They would be pelled by an actual, pendg liberal General Conference proposal to move, as a matter of formal policy, towards openg employment their ngregatn to cross drsers and openly partnered homosexuals. No one n fively say whether or not a gay or transgenr pastor will be appoted to any particular Uned Methodist ngregatn wh the next ten years.
Emory Universy’s Candler School of Theology went further, boastg of havg for years actively helped gay ordatn ndidat circumvent Uned Methodist standards. Ngregatns to part over LGBTQ-related issu — and sd to s hight level this law forbids the marriage or ordatn of “self-avowed, practicg homosexuals, ” but many nservativ have chosen to leave amid a growg fiance of those bans many U.
7 ln members the Uned Stat, has stggled to reach a nsens on same-sex marriage and the ordatn of gay men and lbians.
UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'
That special missn nclud wh 53 percent of church lears and lay people votg to tighten language on s same-sex marriage ban at a general nference last Febary, a measure sayg “the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg.
UNED METHODISTS ELECT ANOTHER GAY BISHOP, SET LIBERAL NEW DIRECTN
Epispalians followed su 2018, expandg the right of gay ngregants to get married all ngregatns.
Pope Francis has drawn acclaim for sayg “Who am I to judge gay people?, ” but the Catholic Church has shown no sign of changg s strict anti-LGBTQ doctre. Siarly, the Southern Baptist Conventn, the largt Prottant nomatn the US, ntu to margalize LGBTQ ngregants, wh msag that have bee culture-war talkg pots agast queer rights — like homosexualy is not a “valid alternative liftyle” and “genr inty is termed by blogil sex and not by one’s self-perceptn.
A regnal body of the Uned Methodist Church (UMC) voted to elect the nomatn's first openly gay Black bishop last week vlatn of s l prohibg the ordatn of "self-avowed practicg homosexuals.