United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers.
Still to be decided at the church’s General Conference in Charlotte, N.C., is the fate of thousands of churches, including many in our area, who have left the conference because the denomination essentially stopped enforcing its bans on same-sex marriage and having “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” serving as clergy and bishops.
Click here for the latest on the meeting which ends Friday: United Methodists repeal longstanding LGBTQ clergy ban – SRN News