The historic vote came the same week that United Methodists repealed a ban on LGBTQ clergy serving in the church, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the U.S.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — United Methodist delegates on Friday repealed their church’s longstanding ban on the celebrations of same-sex marriages or unions by its clergy and in its churches.
The 447-233 vote by the UMC's General Conference came one day after delegates overwhelmingly voted to repeal a 52-year-old declaration that the practice of homosexuality is"incompatible with Christian teaching” and two days after they repealed the denomination's ban on LGBTQ clergy. The delegates voted to repeal a section in their Book of Discipline, or church law, that states: “Ceremonies that celebrate homosexual unions shall not be conducted by our ministers and shall not be conducted in our churches.”
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