Posted on 05/04/2024 3:35:42 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (RNS) — United Methodists meeting for their top legislative assembly Wednesday (May 1) overwhelmingly overturned a measure that barred gay clergy from ordination in the denomination, a historic step for the nation’s second-largest Protestant body.
With a simple vote call and without debate, delegates to the General Conference removed the ban on the ordination of “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” — a prohibition that dates to 1984.
With that vote, the worldwide denomination of some 11 million members joins the majority of liberal Protestant denominations such as the Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, which also ordain LGBTQ clergy.
The morning vote on the motion was part of a larger series of calendar items voted on in bulk. They also included a motion barring superintendents, or overseers, from punishing clergy for performing a same-sex wedding or prohibiting a church from holding a same-sex wedding, though the actual ban on same-sex weddings in churches has yet to be voted on.
The vote on the calendar items was 692-51, or about 93% in favor.
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Methodians are gonna burn, along with the Episcopalians and Presbyters.
The Methodist church is alive and well in the GMC. Let the hedonists have what little is left of the UMC.
the great apostacy
I wonder which one in those pics is a resident here?
The Church of Latter-Day Sodimites *ping*
Amen. I am so happy our local UMC voted to disaffiliate (95% voted YES!) and join the GMC.
this does confirm what I've always believed...that Protestants are just Catholics that don't want to follow rules, the commandments, or the bible and they choose any interpretation that suits the day....
Catholics of old forbade homosexuality forbade divorce, forbade sex before marriage....
see how the liberalization of traditional doctrine has worked out...
The Methodists have always been real loose on Morals and this just confirms it, just another group of Satan’s own...
All my churches closed down during COVID. As far as I’m concerned, there are no churches in my town. A church is needed anyway.
Casting the widest possible net to “accept” the psychologically impaired into... the ministry. Minsistering to the same population. Demographically, a really poor decision, which feels very good to the self anointed but is tragic destruction of a once great denomination. Ultimate failure which will be reflected in the continuing schism in this denomination.
What God placed asunder these Methodists have United.
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