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After 40 years of wrangling and rancor, delegates to the postponed 2020 United Methodist General Conference overwhelmingly removed the ban on ordaining "self-avowed, practicing homosexuals" as clergy.

The vote by delegates to the United Methodist Church General Conference in Charlotte to overwhelmingly to repeal the church’s longstanding ban on ordaining LGBTQ clergy was met with varying reactions in Western Pennsylvania. The Rev. Dale Reese, who is pastor of United Methodist churches in New Kensington, Verona, Aspinwall and

/PRNewswire/ -- This week, the United Methodist Church (UMC) excised discriminatory policies against LGBTQ+ persons, many of which have been a part of its...

Internal differences on same-sex relations led some to walk out of the denomination. But the remainder have moved forward with changing the church’s views.

One person has died after a motorcycle crash in Leighton Township.At around 9:18 p.m. Wednesday, Allegan County Central Dispatch received a call of an injury cr

In the first such divestment action by a major Christian denomination, the General Conference of The United Methodist Church has voted to divest from Israel bonds, and those of other countries carrying out prolonged military occupations.

United Methodists voted on Wednesday to rescind a denominational rule prohibiting LGBT clergy from ordination, a historic moment for the country's second-largest Protestant denomination and its progressive drift. In 1984, the United Methodist Church took a stand for orthodox Christian sexual eth...

United Methodist delegates began making historic changes in their policies on sexuality — voting without debate to reverse a series of anti-LGBTQ policies.

United Methodists Begin to Reverse Longstanding Anti-LGBTQ Policies

United Methodist delegates began making historic changes in their policies on sexuality — voting without debate to reverse a series of anti-LGBTQ policies.