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United Methodists End Ban on Gay Clergy and Gay Marriage

By JRL Charts|2024-05-06T21:03:04-07:00May 6th, 2024|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics USA|Tags: Gay Clergy, LGBT News, lgbt politics, Religion, same-sex marriage, United Methodists|

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — (05-06-24) — It is now official as United Methodist delegates have ended their ban on Gay Clergy and same-sex marriage, ending 50 years of anti-Gay doctrine. When asked at a news conference about the historic change at United Methodist, Rev. Effie McAvoy, pastor of Shepherd of the Valley United Methodist Church in [...]

United Methodists lose one-fifth of US churches over LGBTQ bans

LAS VEGAS — (07-07-23) — We can now report that over 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total, have received permission to leave the denomination over the church' long standing theology against LGBTQ people in the nation’s second-largest Protestant church. Those figures were released following the closure of regular meetings in [...]