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Friday, May 20, 2016

Methodists Trying to Avoid Church Split over Gay Rights

Struggling to avoid a split over gay rights, the top policy-making body of the United Methodist Church on Wednesday narrowly approved a full review of all church law on sexuality, amid an emotional meeting roiled by talk of schism.

Delegates at the Methodist General Conference, meeting in Portland, Oregon, voted 428-405 to delay all consideration of LGBT-related proposals. Instead, the delegates created a commission that will spend at least two years reviewing policy on the subject, contained in the Methodist Book of Discipline, with the goal of developing a plan to address their differences.

The denomination has 12.7 million members worldwide and is the third-largest faith group in the U.S.

While other mainline Protestant groups, including the Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), have approved same-sex marriage, the Methodists have upheld a policy they adopted in 1972, calling same-gender relationships "incompatible with Christian teaching."

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Exactly, homosexuality, or same-gender relationships are "incompatible with Christian teaching." So why debate it for two years? They know many are on the verge of leaving the UMC when they approve same-sex relationships within the church.

Anonymous said...

Once you do that you don't have a church! !!

Anonymous said...

Read what the Bible says----
It's a sin --- it's that
simple. Why do people try
to stir up such a mess???