CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” ...
The United Methodist Church voted to overturn its 40-year ban on LGBTQ clergy as well as its ban on celebrating same-sex ...
Since 1972, the United Methodist ... leading to various LGBTQ bans that have been embedded in official church law. At this ...
A lesbian United Methodist minister defrocked 20 years ago after saying she was in a “committed relationship with another ...
Beth Stroud was defrocked as a United Methodist Church pastor after telling her Philadelphia congregation that she was in a ...
UMC delegates repealed a ban on ordaining and appointing LGBTQ clergy on May 1 following years of contentious discussions at ...
The United Methodist Church overturned its 40-year ban on clergy members who are “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” at the ...
Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United ... herself a Methodist. “The harm they were ...
LOCAL COUPLE AND THE CHURCH. IT’S BEEN AMAZING, AND I WOULDN’T WANT IT ANY OTHER WAY. KIM AND DEBRA CAVALLARO KELLER HAVE ...
Within these theologically moderate-to-progressive Protestant groups, the decades of wrestling over whether to reaffirm or ...