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:
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.
Once you do that you don't have a church! !!
Read what the Bible says----
It's a sin --- it's that
simple. Why do people try
to stir up such a mess???
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