United Methodists prepare for votes on lifting LGBTQ bans and other issues at General Conference
Release time：2024-05-21 16:02:35 Source：Global Gist news portal
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates are heading into the homestretch of their first legislative gathering in five years — one that appears on track to make historic changes in lifting their church’s longstanding bans on same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBTQ clergy.
After a day off on Sunday, delegates to the General Conference of the United Methodist Church resumed their work Monday and will be meeting all this week before wrapping up their 11-day session on Friday
They’ve already begun making historic changes: On Thursday, delegates overwhelmingly endorsed a policy shift that would restructure the worldwide denomination into regional conferences and give the U.S. region, for the first time, the same right as international bodies to modify church rules to fit local situations.
That measure — subject to local ratification votes — is seen as a way the U.S. churches could have LGBTQ ordination and same-sex marriage while the more conservative overseas areas, particularly the large and fast-growing churches of Africa, could maintain those bans.
- Previous：Medics remove 150 MAGGOTS from a woman's mouth after dental procedure left her with rotting tissue
- Next：Siblings trying to make US water polo teams for Paris Olympics
Related articles
- California congressman urges closer consultation with tribes on offshore wind
- Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
- Public schoolboy smashed skulls of two pupils as they slept and tried to kill teacher at £41,000
- Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
- Ship that caused Baltimore bridge collapse has been refloated
- Rizzo's 2
- It really IS harder to say no to cake when you're fat, finds study of obese volunteers' brains
- Yobs armed with catapults terrorise a quiet Surrey village
- Amtrak train hits pickup truck in upstate New York, 3 dead including child
- Video: Alligator on runway at Florida Air Force base captured
- 'The Apprentice,' about a young Donald Trump, premieres in Cannes
- What is the Rwanda scheme? Your questions answered
- Revealed: Parliamentary aide, 29, and an ex
- Suspect in break
- Student fatally shot, suspect detained at Georgia's Kennesaw State University
- Shohei Ohtani hits 450
- Travis Kelce accepts a 'friendly' $14m Chiefs contract 'to keep the team together', claims ex
- Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
- Rangers are undefeated at .500 to keep World Series champs from a losing record with Bochy
- Brits are told to 'go home' as anti
Random recommendation