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United Methodist Church Votes to Keep Ban on Gay Clergy and Same-Sex Marriage
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Lesli White
On Tuesday, the United Methodist Church voted to strengthen its ban on gay clergy and same-sex marriages. This is a decision that could ultimately split the country’s second largest Protestant Church. Delegates voted 438 to 384 at a special session of the church’s General Conference to pass what was called the Traditional Plan maintaining the…
Renegade clergy’s defiance threatens to split United Methodists
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Hundreds of United Methodist clergy are expressing deep concerns over a pledge made by a renegade group of fellow ministers to marry same-sex couples. Their concern is that if the pledge is carried through, the future of the denomination is in jeopardy. “We do not know how many, if any, marriages or ‘holy unions’ of…
Methodists Give $50,000 for Massacre Memorial
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Beliefnet News Editor
By CHRIS HERLINGER c. 2011 Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS/ENInews) The United Methodist Church is making good on a pledge to support a learning center at the Western site of an 1864 massacre of Native Americans led by a Methodist minister. The UMC’s General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns announced a $50,000…
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