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• 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
• 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
• 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. 
• FIRST OPENLY GAY UNED METHODIST BISHOP STAYS, SUBJECT TO CHURCH REVIEW
• OPENLY GAY BISHOP AT CENTER OF CONTROVERSY IN UNED METHODIST CHURCH
• UNED METHODIST CHURCH ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP, IN DEFIANCE OF CHURCH RUL

UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'

Even among active Uned Methodist bishops who claim that “they are upholdg the Disciple, ” and who have ed prevented their nferenc om havg gay weddgs or non-celibate gay clergy, there are three major areas where such Uned Methodist bishops still fail to uphold the Disciple. 6) to require bishops to block the missng or ordatn of openly partnered gay an or elr ndidat (“even if the dividual has been remend by the Board of Ordaed Mistry and approved by the clergy ssn of the annual nference”), to prevent the clergy ssn om even votg on such ndidat, and om nsecratg as a new bishop any openly partnered gay dividual (“even if they have been duly elected by the jurisdictnal or central nference”). Furthermore, last November, multiple Uned Methodist bishops openly broke the Disciple by nsecratg another openly partnered gay activist to bee a new bishop.

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. Her ordatn was emed valid by the Uned Methodist Judicial Council 2017, but she remas her CHURCH OF ENGLAND OFFICIALS ENDORSE GAY MARRIAGE: ‘RANK HERESY’The UMC, which is the third-largt Prottant nomatn the U. Bishop Karen Oliveto, the UMC's first openly gay bishop, speaks at Iliff School of Theology, on April 26, 2017, Denver, Colorado.

"Several nservative members of the Methodist clergy told Fox News Digal June that far om settlg the issue, however, the 2019 vote was disregard by many liberal lears wh the UMC who cid to rema the nomatn while missng openly gay clergy and officiatg same-sex weddgs Lomperis of the Instute on Relign & Democracy, who has served as a UMC General Conference legate, told The Christian Post that Bridgeforth's promotn exhibs "further direct fiance of the UMC’s official l, which is creasgly beg normalized. ”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.

UNED METHODISTS ELECT ANOTHER GAY BISHOP, SET LIBERAL NEW DIRECTN

The growg uc of gay activist bishops will creasgly refe the nomatn.

UNED METHODISTS ELECT MARRIED GAY CLERGYMAN AMONG 13 NEW BISHOPS WHO REPRENT MANY OTHER FIRSTS

But the gay activist bishops’ lavish, six-figure salari are subsidized annually by apportnments taken om Uned Methodist offerg plat across the untry.

This is rponse to the Amerin UMC monstratg a more progrsive view toward LGBT rights recent years, cludg the ordatn of gay clergy and the performance of same-sex weddgs.

UMC BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP FIANCE OF NOMATN'S L

The Disciple stat that homosexualy is “patible wh Christian teachg.

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. 

Oliveto is the first openly gay bishop to hold the posn the church.

Karen Oliveto, the first openly gay bishop the history of the Uned Methodist Church, at her nsecratn service July 16, 2016, at Paradise Valley Uned Methodist Church Sttsdale, Arizona.

FIRST OPENLY GAY UNED METHODIST BISHOP STAYS, SUBJECT TO CHURCH REVIEW

| (Photo: Charmae Robledo)A Colorado-based nference of the Uned Methodist Church led by a bishop a same-sex marriage has approved the disaffiliatn vot of 38 ngregatns leavg the nomatn amid a schism over the nomatn's stance on homosexualy.

OPENLY GAY BISHOP AT CENTER OF CONTROVERSY IN UNED METHODIST CHURCH

"Acrdg to numbers piled by UM News, the number of ngregatns that have left the UMC over the past uple of years over the nomatn's bate over LGBT issu stands jt below 6, 000, wh nearly 4, 000 havg left this year the past few s, the UMC has bated whether to change s official stance prohibg the ordatn of noncelibate homosexuals and the blsg of same-sex unns.

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.

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.

UNED METHODIST CHURCH ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP, IN DEFIANCE OF CHURCH RUL

Cedrick Bridgeforth, a Black, openly gay, married clergyman om Los Angel, has emphasized learship excellence and tn his mistry. 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. 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?