CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on ...
United Methodist Church (UMC) delegates repealed the longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy. At the first meeting of the UMC’s ...
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing ...
The global body that governs United Methodist Churches around the world voted to repeal its long-standing ban on LGBTQ+ ...
The United Methodist Church's quadrennial general conference voted 692-51 on Wednesday to repeal a 40-year-old ban on ...
United Methodist delegates in the US repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBT clergy with no debate on Wednesday, ...
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THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH HAS REPEALED ITS LONG STANDING BAN ON ORDAINING PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY AS LGBTQ INTO THE CLERGY. DELEGATES VOTED OVERWHELMINGLY FOR THE REPEAL AT THEIR GENERAL CONFERENCE.