Controversy embroiled the Florida Conference as s clergy ssn narrowly voted not to approve for advancement on the clergy track a slate of 16 persons, some openly gay. Sam Hodg reports for Uned Methodist News.
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- 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.
- UNED METHODIST CHURCH MOV TO ALLOW LGBT CLERGY AND GAY MARRIAGE
- UNED METHODIST NSERVATIV TAIL BREAKAWAY PLANS OVER GAY CLN
- GAY DATG ATHENS
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.
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. * umc gay ordination *
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 practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg. Therefore self-avowed practicg homosexuals1 are not to be certified as ndidat, ordaed as misters, or appoted to serve The Uned Methodist Church.
"Self-avowed practicg homosexual" is unrstood to mean that a person openly acknowledg to a bishop, district supertennt, district mtee of ordaed mistry, board of ordaed mistry, or clergy ssn that the person is a practicg homosexual.
To ensure that no annual nference board, agency, mtee, missn, or uncil shall give Uned Methodist funds to any gay uc or group, or otherwise e such funds to promote the acceptance of homosexualy or vlate the exprsed mment of The UMC "not to reject or nmn lbian and gay members and iends" (¶ 161F).
UNED METHODIST CHURCH MOV TO ALLOW LGBT CLERGY AND GAY MARRIAGE
The Uned Methodist Church, wh an timated 10.4 ln members, has current polici that are strongly agast the LGBTQ muny. However, many church lears, cludg lol pastors, wele gays and lbians as church members and support their basic human rights. * umc gay ordination *
[The General Council on Fance and Admistratn] shall be rponsible for ensurg that no board, agency, mtee, missn, or uncil shall give Uned Methodist funds to any gay uc or group, or otherwise e such funds to promote the acceptance of homosexualy or vlate the exprsed mment of The Uned Methodist Church "not to reject or nmn lbian and gay members and iends" (¶ 161F). 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
A mtee wh the Uned Methodist Church has affirmed a proposal on acceptg LGBT clergy and gay marriage. Ron Cogswell/Flickr 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 * umc gay ordination *
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.
The Church “implor fai and church not to reject or nmn lbian and gay members and iends.
GAY DATG ATHENS
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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.