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2024-05-02 Olde Tyme Religion

United Methodist Church votes to lift ban on LGBTQ clergy, marking historic policy shift

[FoxNews] Delegates also voted to remove mandatory penalties for conducting same-sex marriages.

United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" from being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. Past General Conferences of the United Methodist Church had steadily reinforced the ban and related penalties amid debate and protests, but many of the conservatives who had previously upheld the ban have left the denomination in recent years, and this General Conference has moved in a solidly progressive direction.

Applause broke out in parts of the convention hall Wednesday after the vote. A group of observers from LGBTQ advocacy groups embraced, some in tears. "Thanks be to God," said one.

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#1 There's money to be made...

Biden just quietly finalized transgender mandate attacking people of faith

"Christian health sharing ministries provide an ethical alternative to traditional health insurance"

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-02 07:44|| 2024-05-02 07:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Story to be followed by yet another think piece about Americans abandoning the church.

Posted by Cesare 2024-05-02 08:33|| 2024-05-02 08:33|| Front Page Top

#3 The Methodist denomination has been fundamentally unserious for a couple of decades (at least).

Posted by Crusader 2024-05-02 10:09|| 2024-05-02 10:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Informal BETA program now becoming formal.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-02 10:23|| 2024-05-02 10:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Quickly followed by an emergency call to a commercial real estate broker about how to sell a lot of empty church buildings.

Posted by Tom 2024-05-02 13:58|| 2024-05-02 13:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Old news. Back in the '70s, one of my bosses was an ex-Methodist-minister - one of the sadist, gay ilk.

Posted by Mercutio 2024-05-02 13:59|| 2024-05-02 13:59|| Front Page Top

#7 I am sure the decision was made prayerfully.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-02 14:54|| 2024-05-02 14:54|| Front Page Top

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