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Church law forbids the marriage or ordination of "self-avowed, practicing homosexuals." But many conservatives chose to leave because numerous U.S. churches and conferences are defying those bans.
More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations - a fifth of the U.S. total - have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination. Those figures emerge following the close of regular
Over 6,000 United Methodist congregations now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people.
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More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people. That's one in five of