Kev Maxen, assistant ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, is the first openly gay ach of a U.S. men’s profsnal league sport
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- OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- SR OF NGREGATNS QU UNED METHODIST CHURCH OVER GAY CLERGY, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS
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. * methodist gay news *
One-fifth of Uned Methodist ngregatns the Uned Stat have received permissn to leave the nomatn over disagreements over same-sex marriage and gay preachers. This year alone, 4, 172 ngregatns left, acrdg to an unofficial tally by Uned Methodist News the church forbids the marriage or ordatn of “self-avowed, practicg homosexuals, ” many church and nferenc fy those bans.
Conservativ May 2022 officially lnched a new Global Methodist Church, where they plan to mata and enforce bans on thgs that clu gay misters and same-sex weddgs.
Recent shifts the church2019: A vote by a General Conference was the latt of several recent s that rerced the church’s ban on gay clergy and marriage. Many wh the nomatn are seekg to reverse bans on the ordatn of gay and lbian misters and officiatns of gay weddgs. LGBTQ+ rponseWhile some partg church allow LGBTQ+ members, ’s an unacceptable double standard when they let LGBTQ+ people attend their servic but refe to marry them, said Sonja Feist, print of the Topeka chapter of Parents, Fay and Friends of Lbians and told The Capal-Journal she didn't see how a church that bans same-sex marriage n claim to be welg to gay people.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * methodist gay news *
They lnched the church January Homosassa, Florida, after their prev ngregatn voted to stay the UMC. Ngregatns to part over LGBTQ-related issu – and sd to s hight level this law forbids the marriage or ordatn of “self-avowed, practicg homosexuals, ” but many nservativ have chosen to leave amid growg fiance of those bans many U. By the end of 2023, the Uned Methodist Church will be signifintly ls uned, torn asunr by a host of issu but mostly over how to addrs same-sex marriage and gay clergy.
Uned Methodists have been more or ls civilly disagreeg about gay rights sce the 1970s, but the issue me to a head 2019. At a UMC General Conference that year, the theologilly nservative mp, aid by socially nservative Uned Methodists om Ai, outflanked the morat and liberals and phed through a rolutn affirmg existg UMC bans on same-sex weddgs and the ordatn of "self-avowed practicg homosexuals" as General Conference also approved a new church law, Paragraph 2553 of the Book of Disciple, offerg UMC church a path out of the Uned Methodist Church wh their church buildgs and property — if they get approval om two-thirds of their ngregatn, sign-off om their regnal erng body, and pay their fair share of clergy pensn liabili and two years of "apportnments" for the larger nomatn.
SR OF NGREGATNS QU UNED METHODIST CHURCH OVER GAY CLERGY, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
In each se the more theologilly nservative church broke om the ma nomatn, Heather Hahn explas at UM News, and the ma nomatns have sce expand their embrace of gay and lbian members. Wh the Epispal Church, the breakup began when the New Hampshire dce elected and nsecrated the first openly gay bishop, V. After years of tumult, the breakaway Anglin Church North Ameri spl om the Epispal Church Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri (ELCA) lost members after votg to allow pastors to bls same-sex unns and ngregatns to accept gay clergy "monogamo" marriag 2009.
Wh no equivalent of the UMC's Paragraph 2553, Epispalians are rolvg disput over ownership of church property chief lson the Uned Methodists n learn om the other spls is that while "no nomatnal divorce is easy, " all the male nomatns "are still standg and dog mistry — and so are the new nomatns that have stck out on their own, " Hahn the nomatnal divorc only about gay rights? Gay marriage and clergy are the brightt "flashpots" the schisms.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
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? 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.