United Methodist delegates on Thursday removed a 52-year-old declaration from their official social teachings that deemed “the practice of homosexuality …...
The language declared “the practice of homosexuality” to be “incompatible with Christian teaching.”delegates on Thursday removed a 52-year-old declaration from their official social teachings that deemed “the practice of homosexuality … incompatible with Christian teaching” — part of a wider series of historic reversals of the denomination’s longstanding disapproval of LGBTQ activity.
The Rev. Jerry Kulah of Liberia held aloft a Bible as he said: “We do not have another Bible apart from this Bible. ... The Bible is very emphatic that we have marriage between a man and a woman.”“Cynics and young adults will not listen to us talk about Jesus if we say we do not condone people they love and care about,” Howell said. “Friends, it’s time.”The Rev.
The progressive momentum of the General Conference was evident from the vote Thursday. They voted on the last of a series of approvals of a wholesale rewrite of the denomination’s Social Principles — a non-binding but influential compendium of the denomination’s social stances on everything from war and peace to the environment and family relations.
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United Methodists remove anti-gay language from their official teachings on societal issuesFor the past 52 years, the United Methodist Church had officially declared “the practice of homosexuality.
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United Methodists remove anti-gay language from their official teachings on societal issuesFor the past 52 years, the United Methodist Church had officially declared “the practice of homosexuality.
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United Methodists remove anti-gay language from their official teachings on societal issuesFor the past 52 years, the United Methodist Church had officially declared “the practice of homosexuality
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United Methodists remove anti-gay language from their official teachings on societal issuesFor the past 52 years, the United Methodist Church had officially declared “the practice of homosexuality ... incompatible with Christian teaching.” But that has ended now that church delegates removed that phrase from their official social teachings at their legislative General Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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