The United Methodist Church marked a new era of LGBTQ inclusion by voting to lift the bans on LGBTQ clergy and on pastors performing same-sex unions. They also removed the language that said homosexuality was “incompatible with Christian teaching.”
I lived in a small town pre-pandemic and was surprised the church had a rainbow sticker on their door. What they also had a smug congregation who during church brunches would go “I don’t care about their lifestyle but why do they gotta shove it in my face?”
Context: All the congregations that refused started leaving the UMC in 2019.
The decision was unanimous because the bigots schismed the church, the largest religious schism in American history.
So, yes, the remaining churches will accept them. The ones that didn’t already left. Expect to hear good things from them under the label of the Global Methodists.
You can say you accept them. Good luck getting the actual People and clergy to actually do it
I lived in a small town pre-pandemic and was surprised the church had a rainbow sticker on their door. What they also had a smug congregation who during church brunches would go “I don’t care about their lifestyle but why do they gotta shove it in my face?”
Context: All the congregations that refused started leaving the UMC in 2019.
The decision was unanimous because the bigots schismed the church, the largest religious schism in American history.
So, yes, the remaining churches will accept them. The ones that didn’t already left. Expect to hear good things from them under the label of the Global Methodists.