Uned Methodists elect married gay clergyman among 13 new bishops who reprent many other firsts – Baptist News Global

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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
• UNED METHODISTS ELECT ANOTHER GAY BISHOP, SET LIBERAL NEW DIRECTN
• WTERN JURISDICTN ELECTS OPENLY GAY UNED METHODIST BISHOP
• UMC BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP FIANCE OF NOMATN'S L
• COMPLAT FILED AGAST GAY BISHOP'S NSECRATN
• BISHOPS RPOND TO GAY LLEAGUE
• 3 GAY PASTORS AMONG NOME FOR BISHOP
• CHURCH THAT MA GAY MAN A BISHOP ACCED OF LETTG 'INMAT RUN ASYLUM'
• OPENLY GAY BISHOP AT CENTER OF CONTROVERSY IN UNED METHODIST CHURCH
• METHODISTS ELECT FIRST OPENLY GAY AIN-AMERIN 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.

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

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 ANOTHER GAY BISHOP, SET LIBERAL NEW DIRECTN

Cedrick Bridgeforth, a Black, openly gay, married clergyman om Los Angel, has emphasized learship excellence and tn his mistry. Bridgeforth is the first openly gay Ain-Amerin man to be elected bishop. Regnal meetgs this month that clud the electn of s send openly gay bishop.

WTERN JURISDICTN ELECTS OPENLY GAY UNED METHODIST BISHOP

”They also passed non-bdg measur askg anyone to whdraw om learship rol if they're planng to leave the nomatn soon — a tegory that almost entirely clus nservativ movg toward the nomatn still officially bans same-sex marriage and the ordatn of any “self-avowed, practicg homosexual, ” and only a legislative gatherg lled the General Conference n change that. He is the first openly gay Ain-Amerin man to be elected bishop.

A vote by a 2019 General Conference was the latt of several recent s that rerced the church's ban on gay clergy and marriage.

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

”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.

COMPLAT FILED AGAST GAY BISHOP'S NSECRATN

Frank Wulf, another openly gay ndidate, had whdrawn earlier. Bishop Melv Talbert, retired om the Wtern Jurisdictn, said he wasn’t sure he would ever live to see the day when the church would elect an openly gay bishop.

The Book of Disciple, the church's lawbook, bans "self-avowed practicg homosexuals" om ordatn, but many gay clergy me out before General Conference 2016.

Rob Renoe, print of Good News, an unofficial evangelil Uned Methodist anizatn that upholds the church’s current stance on homosexualy issu, said the electn and other actns by annual nference this summer ignored the Council of Bishops' proposal for a missn to exame all church law alg wh human sexualy.

BISHOPS RPOND TO GAY LLEAGUE

“Instead, the nferenc have moved ahead wh legislative enactments pledgg non-nformy wh the Book of Disciple, culmatg the electn of a practicg homosexual as bishop, ” said Renoe.

“I want to see gay and lbian people walk eely, ” he said. William Lawrence — former print of the Judicial Council, the church’s top urt — said before Oliveto was elected that if an openly gay person were elected bishop, anyone the nomatn uld file a plat. Rencilg Mistri Network, an unofficial Uned Methodist anizatn that advot for LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer) “celebrat wh great joy the electn of the first openly lbian bishop The Uned Methodist Church.

3 GAY PASTORS AMONG NOME FOR BISHOP

“This is an historic moment the movement of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) persons for spirual and civil equaly both the church and the public square, ” the group said a statement.

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.

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

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.

OPENLY GAY BISHOP AT CENTER OF CONTROVERSY IN UNED METHODIST CHURCH

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.

METHODISTS ELECT FIRST OPENLY GAY AIN-AMERIN BISHOP

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. 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.