Why the Uned Methodist Church Canceled Vot on Same-Sex Marriage, Gay Clergy | Sojourners

Contents:

• UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS
• UNED METHODIST NSERVATIV TAIL BREAKAWAY PLANS OVER GAY CLN
• WHY THE UNED METHODIST CHURCH CANCELED VOT ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, GAY CLERGY
• UNED METHODISTS TIGHTEN BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND GAY CLERGY
• UNED METHODIST CHURCH MOV TO ALLOW LGBT CLERGY AND GAY MARRIAGE

UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE

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S., 60% of Uned Methodist members say homosexualy should be accepted, acrdg to a 2014 survey by the Pew Rearch Center. Meredh is gay and has been married sce 2016.

OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS

" He says the plan don't acknowledge the historil legacy of homophobia the church, though he poted to the plan's allotment of $39 ln over four years to "support muni historilly margalized by the s of racism" as a step toward such an acknowledgement. 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.

UNED METHODIST NSERVATIV TAIL BREAKAWAY PLANS OVER GAY CLN

That special missn nclud wh 53 percent of church lears and lay people votg to tighten language on s same-sex marriage ban at a general nference last Febary, a measure sayg “the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg. Epispalians followed su 2018, expandg the right of gay ngregants to get married all ngregatns.

WHY THE UNED METHODIST CHURCH CANCELED VOT ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, GAY CLERGY

Pope Francis has drawn acclaim for sayg “Who am I to judge gay people?, ” but the Catholic Church has shown no sign of changg s strict anti-LGBTQ doctre. Siarly, the Southern Baptist Conventn, the largt Prottant nomatn the US, ntu to margalize LGBTQ ngregants, wh msag that have bee culture-war talkg pots agast queer rights — like homosexualy is not a “valid alternative liftyle” and “genr inty is termed by blogil sex and not by one’s self-perceptn.

]Uned Methodists nclud their General Conference last Friday (May 4) whout votg on gay clergy or same-sex marriage, a surprisg end to a disappotg week for gay Thursday, the nearly 1, 000 legat gathered Tampa, Fla., soundly rejected two motns that would have amend the Uned Methodist Church's book of doctre and l, which lls the practice of homosexualy "patible wh Christian teachg. Conference planners, evangelil lears and gay and lbian advot met later on Thursday and termed that there was ltle e holdg addnal ntent bat on homosexualy, acrdg to several sourc.

Proposals to orda gay clergy and bls same-sex unns held ltle chance of passg, the parti agreed, and so were phed to the back of the agenda, sentially assurg that they would not be bated. Leadg up to General Conference, which nven every four years, gay advot had argued that momentum favored their e. About 1, 200 Uned Methodists clergy have agreed to break church l and marry same-sex upl, surveys show young Christians favor expandg gay rights and other male Prottant nomatns have adopted gay-iendly polici recent the UMC, which is the largt male Prottant nomatn the untry, is shrkg the U.

UNED METHODISTS TIGHTEN BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND GAY CLERGY

While growg Ai and Asia, where nservative views on homosexualy nservative Instute on Relign & Democracy creded Ain legat for upholdg UMC's "patible" stance on homosexualy. Still, Mark Tooley, a Uned Methodist and IRD's print, lled the ncellatn of vot on gay clergy and same-sex marriage "very surprisg. "The lears of several Uned Methodist gay rights groups did not rpond to requts for Burke wr for Relign News Service.

The Church “implor fai and church not to reject or nmn lbian and gay members and iends.

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.

UNED METHODIST CHURCH MOV TO ALLOW LGBT CLERGY AND GAY MARRIAGE

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.