The change doesn't mandate or even explicitly affirm LGBTQ clergy, but it means the church no longer forbids them.
United Methodist Church (UMC) delegates repealed the longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy. At the first meeting of the UMC’s ...
Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia. In a church ...
Delegates within the United Methodist Church voted to repeal their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy Wednesday, ...
The United Methodist Church's long-standing ban on LGBTQ pastors was recently removed, paving the way for people like Aaron ...
United Methodists, at major conference, repeal their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy ...
United Methodist delegates repealed their church's longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" from being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 ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing ...
The global body that governs United Methodist Churches around the world voted to repeal its long-standing ban on LGBTQ+ ...