The United Methodist Church is on track to shed roughly 12% of its membership this week when the Eglise Methodiste Unie Cote d'Ivoire (EMUCI) voted Tuesday to leave the 9.9-million-member denomination.
Boy Scouts of America: When one crucible fails, another is neededA gay pride rainbow flag flies with the U.S. flag in front of the Asbury United Methodist Church in Prairie Village, Kan., on Friday, April 19, 2019. The United Methodist Church moved toward becoming more progressive and LGBTQ-affirming during U.S. …The United Methodist Church is on track to shed roughly 12% of its membership this week when the Eglise Méthodiste Unie Côte d’Ivoire voted Tuesday to leave the 9.
In a statement released by Bishop Benjamin Boni, EMUCI president, Ivorian Methodists said the gay-affirming votes were “not based on any Biblical and disciplinary values” but rather is now aligned with “socio-cultural and contextual values which have consumed its doctrinal and disciplinary integrity.”
While same-sex relationships have never been illegal in the Ivory Coast, a former French colony whose 2023 population was estimated at 30.9 million, African churches have been united in their opposition to gay marriage. Commenting on the May delegates’ vote to permit such marriages, African bishops attending the session said, “In Africa, we do not believe we know better than Jesus. We do not believe we know better than God. We do not believe we know better than the Bible.
The exit of an entire African conference — the equivalent of a diocese — is the latest body blow to a United Methodist Church reeling from years of division over how the church should view homosexuals who wish to serve as ordained clergy or be married in a church ceremony.
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