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this should be fun - umc votes to expel lgbt pastors and pro-lgbt churches

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United Methodist Denomination Votes to Expel LGBT Pastors and Pro-LGBT Churches

America’s second-largest Protestant denomination, the United Methodist Church, is set to split, as the church’s top policy-making body set a final vote Tuesday to maintain prohibitions on homosexuality and to expel gay pastors...

Only the anti-LGBTQ “Traditional Plan” won a majority of delegates, prevailing by a vote of 56% to 44%.

That plan maintains the Book of Discipline’s statement that “the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching” and that “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” cannot be ordained as ministers or be married in the church.

Moreover, the plan actually increases the enforcement of this provision. At present, there are numerous LGBTQ Methodist pastors – one, Briand Adkins, spoke at the Conference and stated plainly “I am a gay pastor” – and the denomination has not taken affirmative action to dismiss them.
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Approximately 2/3 of the American delegates voted against it. The Africans and most of the Europeans voted for it. Time for a division along continental lines...
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i hope they tell those folks to jump in a lake.

i thought this part from the article was interesting.

But African pastors’ conservatism is also partly the result of their ‘competition’ with conservative Islam for followers. Some imams touts Islam as more pious than Christianity in part because of its hard line on homosexuality.
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I am Methodist, but we haven’t been active members for a while. We live in a town with just one UMC, but don’t really like it.

So the vote just retains the status quo in relation to gay pastors?


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Crimson1967 said:
I am Methodist, but we haven’t been active members for a while. We live in a town with just one UMC, but don’t really like it.

So the vote just retains the status quo in relation to gay pastors?


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mostly. according to the article, it increases enforcement.
 
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Crimson1967 said:
I am Methodist, but we haven’t been active members for a while. We live in a town with just one UMC, but don’t really like it.

So the vote just retains the status quo in relation to gay pastors?


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Yes, and the sinfulness of homosexuality. As the father of a gay daughter in a same-sex marriage, you can imagine how I feel about it...
 
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