(They are now officially an apostate church.)
UMC removes rule that homosexuality violates Christian teaching | Church & Ministries News (christianpost.com)"The United Methodist Church General Conference has voted to remove a statement from its central rulebook that declared that homosexuality was "incompatible with Christian teaching."
"With the vote, delegates also approved the statement that "marriage [is] a sacred, lifelong covenant that brings two people of faith (adult man and adult woman of consenting age or two adult persons of consenting age) into a union of one another and into deeper relationship with God and the religious community." FULL STORY at above link.
Second-largest Protestant denomination in US votes to allow LGBT clergy — but African pastor holds the line | Blaze Media (theblaze.com)"Whereas the UMC is now going the way of other progressive Christian denominations in the U.S. — like the Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America — it's important to remember that the embrace of pro-LGBT theology is almost uniquely confined to the Western church, where issues of sexuality and gender have become cultural lightning rods." FULL STORY at above link.