May 5, 2024 · United Methodist delegates repeal their church's ban on its clergy celebrating same-sex marriages. Surely there will be skirmishes to come ...

May 2, 2024 · That replaces an exclusively heterosexual definition of marriage and followed a debate that exposed tensions between some U.S. and international ...

May 3, 2024 · United Methodist delegates have repealed their church's longstanding ban on the celebrations of same-sex marriages or unions by its clergy.

Apr 30, 2024 · The delegates voted to delete mandatory penalties for conducting same-sex marriages and to remove their denomination's bans on considering LGBTQ ...

Oct 10, 2022 · The flashpoints are the denomination's bans on same-sex marriages and ordaining openly LGBTQ clergy — though many see these as symptoms for ...

Jul 6, 2023 · Church law forbids the marriage or ordination of “self-avowed, practicing homosexuals,” but many conservatives have chosen to leave amid a ...

Currently, "self-avowed, practicing" gay, lesbian and bisexual persons cannot be ordained in The United Methodist Church. According to the Book of Discipline: " ...

Dec 15, 2023 · United Methodist rules forbid same-sex marriage rites and the ordination of “self-avowed practicing homosexuals,” but progressive Methodist ...