For the past 52 years, the United Methodist Church had officially declared "the practice of homosexuality . incompatible with Christian teaching." But that has ended now that church delegates removed that phrase from their official social teachings at their legislative General Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.
United Methodist delegates have repealed their church s long-standing ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate. They removed a rule forbidding "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" from being ordained or appointed as ministers.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. United Methodist delegates repealed their church s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" from being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.
United Methodist delegates have repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate. They removed a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers.
United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being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 controversy around the issue., World News - Times Now