CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” ...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 Church considered homosexuality to be “incompatible with Christian teaching." That language ...
Beth Stroud was defrocked as a United Methodist Church pastor after telling her Philadelphia congregation that she was in a ...
A Methodist pastor has finally been reinstated in the church over 20 years after she was kicked out for being gay. The United ...
A lesbian United Methodist minister defrocked 20 years ago after saying she was in a “committed relationship with another ...
UMC delegates repealed a ban on ordaining and appointing LGBTQ clergy on May 1 following years of contentious discussions at ...
Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia. In a church ...
LOCAL COUPLE AND THE CHURCH. IT’S BEEN AMAZING, AND I WOULDN’T WANT IT ANY OTHER WAY. KIM AND DEBRA CAVALLARO KELLER HAVE ...
The fight to allow same-sex marriage and gay clergy has defined much of the last half-century for major mainline Protestant ...
Chinese firms can sell EVs for as little as $12,000. Their solar cell plants and steel and aluminum mills have enough ...
DES MOINES, Iowa — Pride month is just around the corner, and two local organizations are working together to help Iowans ...