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- Thousands of congregations have left the United Methodist Church amid contentious debates over sexuality, including a dispute over whether to accept gay marriage and LGBTQ+ pastors. The rift marks the largest denominational schism in U.S. history.
Jul 25, 2023 · The largest mainline Protestant denomination in the U.S. is shrinking due to disputes over LGBTQ+ clergy and same-sex marriage. About 20% of United Methodist congregations have left in recent...
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Apr 24, 2024 · Leaders of the United Methodist Church meet to determine its future over LGBTQ issues and dwindling membership. Membership is declining as more conservative congregations leave the fold.
Dec 15, 2023 · United Methodist rules forbid same-sex marriage rites and the ordination of “self-avowed practicing homosexuals,” but progressive Methodist churches and regional governing bodies in the U.S. have increasingly been defying these rules. Conservatives have mobilized like-minded congregations to exit.
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global methodist church split over gay rights united methodist church split over gay rights Jan 19, 2024 · USA TODAY. Thousands of congregations have left the United Methodist Church amid contentious debates over sexuality, including a dispute over whether to accept gay marriage and LGBTQ+ pastors....
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United Methodists have been more or less civilly disagreeing about gay rights since the 1970s, but the issue came to a head in 2019. At a UMC General Conference that year, the theologically conservative camp, aided by socially conservative United Methodists from Africa, outflanked the moderates and liberalsand pushed through a resolution affirming ...
The full extent won't be known until the end of 2023. But between 2019 and July 2023, about 6,180 Methodist ccongregations successfully disaffiliated from the UMC, mostly in the South and Midwest. The approved departures represented about 20 percent of America's United Methodist churches in 2019. As of December 2022, the UMC was still the third-lar...
The Episcopalians, Lutherans, and Presbyterians also lost churches over LGBTQ issues. In each case the more theologically conservative church broke from the main denomination, Heather Hahn explains at UM News, and the main denominations have since expanded their embrace of gay and lesbian members. With the Episcopal Church, the breakup began when t...
Gay marriage and clergy are the brightest "flashpoints" in these schisms. Same-sex marriage in particular has gained acceptance in the U.S. at an astonishingly fast rate, and some religious and cultural conservatives would like to stand athwart this shift. But these issues are also "symptoms for deeper differences in views on justice, theology, and...
What happens in church doesn't always stay in church. "Big church splits can prefigure big national splits," Bonnie Kristian cautioned at The Week. The Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians all split over slavery in the decades before the Civil War, and many historians say "those breaks accelerated the severance of social and political ties that ...
May 1, 2024 · The United Methodist Church overturned its 40-year ban on gay clergy Wednesday, marking a historic shift in the church’s stance on homosexuality. The church has long been divided into factions...
Apr 26, 2024 · United Methodists from around the world meeting at their General Conference in Charlotte, N.C., have voted on steps that could end the church's ban on LGBTQ+ clergy and same-sex...
