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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Angie Cox, left, and Joelle Henneman hug after an approval vote at the United Methodist Church General ...
United Methodist delegates repealed their church's longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" from being ordained ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing ...
Since 1972, the United Methodist Church considered homosexuality to be “incompatible with Christian teaching." That language ...
A lesbian United Methodist minister defrocked 20 years ago after saying she was in a “committed relationship with another ...
In 1984, the UMC General Conference approved a law forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being in ministry.