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DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) On the first Sunday after the conclusion of the denomination’s General Conference, many queer United Methodists celebrated their release from the tight and narrow spaces that had confined them.
The United Methodist Church General Conference voted to drop a ban on funding LGBT advocacy groups and removed a required punishment for officiating gay weddings.
The United Methodist Church marked a new era of LGBTQ inclusion by voting to lift the bans on LGBTQ clergy and on pastors performing same-sex unions. They also removed the language that said homosexuality was “incompatible with Christian teaching.”