Leaders of the United Methodist Church have expressed regret over last week’s decision by the branch in Ivory Coast to leave the union following the church’s decision to repeal a
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers. Delegates voted 692-51 at their General Conference the first such legislative gathering in five years. That overwhelming margin contrasts sharply with the decades of […]