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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 CHURCH MOV TO ALLOW LGBT CLERGY AND GAY MARRIAGE

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A mtee wh the Uned Methodist Church has affirmed a proposal on acceptg LGBT clergy and gay marriage.

UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE

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 affirmed the proposal to remove church legislatn that punish clergy for beg “self-avowed practicg homosexuals” or officiatg gay weddgs, the Uned Methodist Church News Service reported.

WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE

If passed, clergy members would not face punishment, church trials or be ocked if they officiated same-sex weddgs or me out as gay. This was the realy for Uned Methodist pastor Frank Schaefer, who was ocked November 2013 and restated last October after officiatg the weddg of his gay son. While the church reversed s cisn on technil grounds, rather than those related to s posn on homosexualy, church lears saw the reversal as a signal toward full cln of s LGBT members.

UNED METHODIST NSERVATIV TAIL BREAKAWAY PLANS OVER GAY CLN

However, remas a small step until the church pletely remov s negative language on homosexualy. " LGBT people who are “self-avowed” and “practicg” homosexualy also are forbidn om beg ordaed.

METHODISTS STRENGTHEN STANCE AGAST GAY MARRIAGE AND OPENLY LGBT CLERGY

Homosexualy has been bated by church lears for more than four s.

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