After a stance against same-sex marriages and LGBTQ clergy members was upheld by a slim majority in 2019, many conservative congregations across the country...
Local churches may split from the denomination for “reasons of conscience” regarding LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage, “or the actions or inactions of its annual conference related to these issues,” according to the guidance.Oak Lawn United Methodist Church Assoc. Pastor Isabel Marquez gives hope to arriving immigrants
Congregations must first reach a two-thirds majority vote in favor of leaving before being approved by their annual conference. Churches must also pay two years of apportionments to the UMC as well as any unfunded pension liabilities. “I am grateful that these congregations followed the process outlined by our conference trustees,” Schnase said. “We have reached the point in our spiritual journeys where we separate to walk different paths.”
After disaffiliation from the UMC, local churches could join other denominations or remain independent. For example,41 North Texas churches are disaffiliating from the United Methodist Church. What’s next?Every four years, the UMC hosts a gathering of its delegates from around the world at its General Conference. In 2019, a special session of the General Conference met in St. Louis to address the denomination’s stance on LGBTQ inclusion in the church.
In the end, a stance against same-sex marriages and ordination of LGBTQ+ clergy was upheld by a 53% vote, according toThe next regularly scheduled General Conference in 2020 was highly anticipated because of the division over LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriages, but it was postponed multiple times because of the pandemic and won’t take place until 2024.
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