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United Methodist delegates voted to remove language condemning homosexuality from their official social teachings on Thursday, a day after voting to remove a ban on gay clergy. The restrictions ended on Wednesday had banned “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained as ministers. The language removed on Thursday had deemed “the practice of homosexuality” to be “incompatible with Christian teaching.
The historic vote came as delegates also approved a new definition of marriage as a covenant between “two people of faith” while recognizing the couple may or may not involve a man and a woman. That replaces an exclusively heterosexual definition of marriage and followed a debate that... United Methodist delegates voted Thursday to make the denomination, which has skewed leftward in the wake of mass defections by conservative-leaning congregations, more gay- and LGBTQ-friendly.
By a 523-161 vote, delegates to the General Conference of the United Methodist Church meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, voted to drop a decadeslong definition of marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman and struck language saying homosexual practice “is incompatible with Christian teaching.”
Delegates were expected to approve same-sex wedding ceremonies and/or blessings of same-sex unions in local congregations on Friday, the last...
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