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• UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'
• UNED METHODISTS ELECT MARRIED GAY CLERGYMAN AMONG 13 NEW BISHOPS WHO REPRENT MANY OTHER FIRSTS
• COMPLAT FILED AGAST GAY BISHOP'S NSECRATN
• UNED METHODISTS ELECT ANOTHER GAY BISHOP, SET LIBERAL NEW DIRECTN
• 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. 
• 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 METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'

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.

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

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.

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.

COMPLAT FILED AGAST GAY BISHOP'S NSECRATN

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.

UNED METHODISTS ELECT ANOTHER GAY BISHOP, SET LIBERAL NEW DIRECTN

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.

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. 

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

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

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.

CHURCH THAT MA GAY MAN A BISHOP ACCED OF LETTG 'INMAT RUN ASYLUM'

"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. 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.

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WTERN JURISDICTN ELECTS OPENLY GAY UNED METHODIST BISHOP

4, 2022, shortly after beg elected by legat of the Wtern Jurisdictn to be the first openly gay black bishop The Uned Methodist Church. 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. Although efforts by theologil progrsiv to change the nomatn’s l have nsistently failed, many have openly refed to enforce the standards regardg marriage and 2016, the Wtern Jurisdictn unanimoly elected Karen Oliveto to be bishop of the UMC Mounta Sky Area, makg her the first openly gay bishop the history of the the UMC’s hight urt, the Uned Methodist Judicial Council, led 2017 that Oliveto’s electn was valid, as of November of this year, she remas and other events have prompted many theologil nservativ recent months to leave the male nomatn and jo the newly created Global Methodist Church. 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.