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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youths in Nebraska and across the country are exposed to a steady stream of news about anti-LGBTQ policies and legislation, and many say it's affecting their wellbeing. Nearly one-third of the 28,000 who responded to the latest Trevor Project survey of LGBTQ young people reported having poor mental health "most or all of the time" because of anti-LGBTQ proposals and actions. Alison DeLizza, a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center who specializes in working with these young peo...

By Sarah Melotte for The Daily Yonder.Broadcast version by Shanteya Hudson for North Carolina News Service Service for the Public News Service/Daily Yonder Collaboration Reverend Katie Black had been serving her United Methodist Church (UMC) congregation for less than a year when a member knocked on her office door and told her the congregation had been praying about withdrawing from the denomination. “I had heard a lot of stories about churches [disaffiliating] in bigger cities and it becoming a very contentious and ugly fight,” Reverend Black said in an interview with th...

Many small or rural churches that are part of the United Methodist Church will have to decide whether to stay with the denomination because of its stance on LGBTQ issues.

United Methodist Church congregations are working through a complex process prompted by fears over possible doctrine change on homosexuality.

PITTSBURGH -- The Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church (WPAUMC) officially designated Clarion First UMC in Clarion as a Lighthouse Congregation. As a Lighthouse Congregation, Clarion First UMC