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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

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UNED METHODIST NSERVATIV TAIL BREAKAWAY PLANS OVER GAY CLN

Though societal shift has taken place regardg homosexualy specifilly, other sful sexual exprsns are not treated by society general as matters of blogil necsy or human rights (Levic 18:6-23; 19:20-22; 20:10- 21 et.

UNED METHODIST CHURCH MOV TO ALLOW LGBT CLERGY AND GAY MARRIAGE

Whether the are socially acceptable or socially abhorrent, no fense based on blogil necsy or jtice is leveraged wh the exceptn of homosexual exprsn (verse 22) which has led to the movement toward legal equaly and social acceptance. Like all Christian bodi, the Free Methodist Church is prently nonted wh the necsy of rpondg to strong cultural prsur to accept homosexual relatnships, pecially those scribed as “monogamo, venantal partnerships.

Send, the Bible’s nsistent negative appraisal of homosexualy is the primary obstacle to the acceptance of homosexualy by the majory of ntemporary Christians and Christian bodi.

UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE

Moreover, the Bible as nonil Scripture functns as norma normans (normg norm), tablishg the standard for the Church’s life and fah for every generatn throughout history; and th the Bible’s nonil role requir also to asss how the biblil junctns and perspectiv n, om the perspective of the biblil wns s entirety, be legimately applied to the issue of mted, monogamo homosexual relatnships/partnerships our own day.

Throughout the history of the Church, and large measure even to the prent time, a broad nsens has existed around the terpretatn of biblil passag alg wh homosexualy. In the past several years scholarly treatments on the issue of homosexualy and on the biblil passag related to have multiplied exponentially; a vast lerature has emerged.

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