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As of June 2023, more than 6,000 Uned Methodist ngregatns — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permissn to leave the nomatn amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people the natn's send-largt Prottant nomatn.<span class="dmnc_imag-image-elements-module__7oO0P pl-1">(Charlie Riel / ASSOCIATED PRESS)</span></figptn></figure><div class="dmnc_chas-article-top-article-top-module__6c-b7 flex lg-down_flex-l"><div class="dmnc_chas-article-top-article-top-module__iUvdA flex-grow lg-down_w-full lg-down_mb-4"><div class="dmnc_generic-byle-byle-module__TwYNy sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-10 text-gray-medium"><p><span class="">By <!-- -->Ruben Saenz Jr.</span></p><p>1:30 AM on Jul 12, 2023 CDT</p></div></div><div class="dmnc_chas-article-top-article-top-module__6Ov1b lg-down_w-full"><div class="dmnc_generic-share-bar-share-bar-module__C7Mzo flex flex-l md_flex-row md_ems-center"><div class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__QPbOU flex flex-wrap mb-8"><button class="dmnc_featur-try-ai-social-button-try-button-module__SOTEf relative borr borr-blue flex whpace-nowrap ems-center p-3 mr-3 my-1 hover_bg-blue transn-all"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="17" viewBox="0 0 16 17" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="dmnc_featur-try-ai-social-button-try-button-module__41Bxg in-le w-6 h-6 text-blue"><path d="M1 12.749V8.082a7 7 0 1114 0v4.667m0 .778a1.556 1.556 0 01-1.556 1.555h-.777a1.556 1.556 0 01-1.556-1.555v-2.334a1.556 1.556 0 011.556-1.555H15v3.889zm-14 0a1.556 1.556 0 001.556 1.555h.777a1.556 1.556 0 001.556-1.555v-2.334a1.556 1.556 0 00-1.556-1.555H1v3.889z"></path></svg><span class="dmnc_featur-try-ai-social-button-try-button-module__0kLCN sendaryBoldCaps sendaryBoldCaps-10 pl-1 hi-if-empty text-blue">LISTEN</span></button><a class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__rH-K0 relative borr borr-gray-medium flex whpace-nowrap ems-center p-3 mr-3 my-1 hover_bg-gray-light transn-all" href=" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" tle="Share on Facebook"><svg xmlns=" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__-UxPq in-le dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__2p85- text-facebook"><path d="M18 2h-3a5 5 0 00-5 5v3H7v4h3v8h4v-8h3l1-4h-4V7a1 1 0 011-1h3z"></path></svg></a><a class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__rH-K0 relative borr borr-gray-medium flex whpace-nowrap ems-center p-3 mr-3 my-1 hover_bg-gray-light transn-all" href=" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" tle="Share on Twter"><svg xmlns=" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__-UxPq in-le dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__vWRQM text-twter"><path d="M23 3a10.9 10.9 0 01-3.14 1.53 4.48 4.48 0 00-7.86 3v1A10.66 10.66 0 013 4s-4 9 5 13a11.64 11.64 0 01-7 2c9 5 20 0 20-11.5a4.5 4.5 0 00-.08-.83A7.72 7.72 0 0023 3z"></path></svg></a><a class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__rH-K0 relative borr borr-gray-medium flex whpace-nowrap ems-center p-3 mr-3 my-1 hover_bg-gray-light transn-all" href="mailto:?; tle="Share via Email"><svg width="16" height="11" viewBox="0 0 16 11" xmlns=" fill="currentColor" class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__-UxPq in-le "><path d="M8.202 6.698L15.085.62c-.046-.007-.088-.028-.136-.028H1.452c-.03 0-.055.015-.083.018l6.833 6.087zM15.913 1.557a.95.95 0 00-.065-.323l-4.86 4.291 4.798 4.198a.954.954 0 00.127-.453V1.557zM.564 1.185a.957.957 0 00-.076.372V9.27c0 .14.034.272.088.392L5.42 5.51.564 1.185z"></path><path d="M10.26 6.167L8.2 7.986l-2.054-1.83-4.744 4.066c.017.002.032.012.05.012h13.454l-4.647-4.067z"></path></svg></a><a class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__rH-K0 relative borr borr-gray-medium flex whpace-nowrap ems-center p-3 mr-3 my-1 hover_bg-gray-light transn-all" href="()" tle="Prt"><svg fill="currentColor" class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__-UxPq in-le " width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 15 15" xmlns="><path d="M13.125 2.813V0H1.875v2.813H0v5.624h1.875v2.813L5.625 15h7.5V8.437H15V2.814h-1.875zM11.25 13.124H6.562v-2.813H3.75v-3.75h7.5v6.563zm0-10.313h-7.5v-.937h7.5v.938z"></path></svg></a></div></div></div></div><div class="dmnc_featur-try-ai-media-player-try-ai-module__XuKhb mb-4"><div class="tryAudPlaceholr"></div></div><div emProp="articleBody" class="body-text dmnc_featur-article-body-body-module__Ldbl- mb-8 false"><sectn><p class="body-text-paragraph">The <a href=">recent disaffiliatns</a> wh the Uned Methodist Church have left some of our members unsettled and sadned by the parture of fellow members and ngregatns. However, should be noted that a large majory of church have chosen to rema affiliated. In the North Texas Conference, only 48 church have left.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Although separatn n be paful and brg sorrow, ultimately helps to clarify and strengthen our Christian inty and wns the Wleyan tradn as Uned Methodists. Our mment to our historic doctr remas steadfast, and we strive to une our personal hols wh God’s visn for a jt society.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6 hidn md_flex"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__hQ4DU flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-sktopInle1" data-un="dmn/opn/mentary/article/sktopInle1" data-targetg="{}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">The Uned Methodist Church North Texas looks forward to a world whout sufferg, grief or ath, where God’s love and passn are ever-prent. We strive for four ma out: to assist dividuals epeng their love for God, to spread the msage of new and abundant life Christ, to serve others, pecially those facg poverty, and to pursue mercy and God’s jtice to promote whole and flourishg liv for all.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6 md_hidn"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__h-NaF dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__u4HRm dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 md_hidn htlad-dfpPosn1_article" data-un="dmn/opn/mentary/article/dfpPosn1_article" data-targetg="{}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">We believe everyone is of sacred worth and serv rpect, regardls of age, genr, race, ethnicy or sexual orientatn. 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John Wley, the founr of the Methodist movement, believed that the Christian fah’s livg re and gent acunt are revealed Scripture, illumated by church tradn, brought to life personal experience and nfirmed by reason based on wir fields of knowledge. Although discsns about the terpretatn of human sexualy the Uned Methodist Church are ongog, our shared mment to historic Christian doctr remas unshakable.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Some try to separate the church by amg “savg souls” and “seekg God’s jtice for the world” as a dichotomy. J’s teachgs, however, place equal importance on rencilg people to God and alleviatg the sufferg and jtic society. The Uned Methodist Church embrac the totaly of J’ teachgs and mistry. We are mted to lovg God, pursug personal hols and lovg our neighbors through acts of service, mercy and jtice mistri. The two spirual dimensns and practic are separable.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__D24FM w-full mb-6 htlad-nativeArticleInle" data-un="dmn/opn/mentary/article/nativeArticleInle" data-targetg="{"native":"nativeArticleInle","scroll":"1"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">The Uned Methodist Church’s mment to the fundamental msage of lovg God and lovg our neighbor remas unwaverg. We are a worldwi church that labors uny wh ecumenil partners and our neighbors of other fah tradns toward the salvatn, health and peace of all people. We strive to form and clu mted Christ followers wh var perspectiv for a nstantly evolvg and diversifyg world. We are dited to creatg a posive and lastg spirual and social impact for prent and future generatns. As a church for the prent, we always keep the future md, layg the foundatns for a church our scendants fah will receive and value.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph"><i>The Rev. Ruben Saenz Jr. is the rint bishop for the Central and North Texas Conferenc of the Uned Methodist Church. He wrote this lumn for The Dallas Morng News.</i></p><p class="body-text-paragraph"><i>This lumn is part of our ongog Opn mentary on fah, lled </i><a href="><i>Livg Our Fah</i></a><i>. 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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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UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'

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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.

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

David Gura speaks wh Rev. 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. * gay bishop umc *

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.

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. * gay bishop umc *

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.

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

UNED METHODISTS ELECT ANOTHER GAY BISHOP, SET LIBERAL NEW DIRECTN

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. 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.

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. 

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.

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. ”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.

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

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

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

| (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. "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.

WTERN JURISDICTN ELECTS OPENLY GAY UNED METHODIST BISHOP

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. 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. This is member-exclive ntentOpnA gay Pri rabow flag fli wh the U.

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