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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — United Methodist 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.
Those churches left under a window that enabled American churches to leave with their properties, normally held by the denomination, under more favorable than normal terms.
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