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United Methodist Church Leaders Vote Against LGBTQ Inclusion<\/b>
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Today, HRC\u00a0Foundation released the following statement after the news that The United Methodist Church (UMC), the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United States, voted in a Special Session of the General Conference to retain language in its official documents that, in effect, prohibits gay<\/a>, lesbian<\/a>, and bisexual<\/a> people from being ordained as ministers and also prohibits Methodist ministers from officiating same-sex<\/a> marriages:<\/p>\n

\u201cCountless LGBTQ Methodists, including young people and their families, are yearning for a welcoming church family. Unfortunately, today The United Methodist Church decided against taking meaningful steps that would include LGBTQ Methodists fully in the life of the church,\u201d said Jay Brown, HRC Foundation\u2019s Acting Senior Vice President. \u201cHowever, despite this decision, it\u2019s clear that LGBTQ Methodists and allies will continue to push for inclusion — not in spite of their faith, but because of it. We applaud the work of Reconciling Ministries Network and other LGBTQ Methodists and allies leading this charge.\u201d<\/p>\n

The United Methodist Church has 12.7 million members worldwide, including nearly seven million in the U.S. The UMC recognizes the \u201csacred worth\u201d of all persons, but effectively disallows gay<\/a>, lesbian<\/a> and bisexual<\/a> people from being ordained as ministers, stating in the Book of Discipline that \u201cthe practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching.\u201d The UMC also barrs ordained ministers from performing same-sex<\/a> weddings, and bans financial support of LGBTQ-based groups. Transgender people are not barred from ordination on the basis of gender identity and an attempt to do so failed in 2008.<\/p>\n

Since the UMC\u2019s 2012 General Conference, many LGBTQ people and allies have been actively pushing for the change. Some also adopted practices of ecclesial disobedience, which ally Bishop Melvin Talbert coined \u201cBiblical Obedience\u201d. The practice urges the LGBTQ faithful and allies to \u201cbe the church now\u201d by ignoring discriminatory and unjust church law. This effort led to a dramatic increase in clergy and laity defying church doctrine in an effort to reclaim the Bible’s call<\/a> for justice and inclusion as it applies to marriage and ordination.<\/p>\n

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