United methodist book of discipline homosexuality
Coming Out with the Recent Book of Discipline
Jan. 6, | DALLAS (UM News)
Key points:
- The Rev. Dr. Rebekah Miles joins with many United Methodists in celebrating the removal of the denomination’s year-old stance against same-sex relationships.
- With her children’s encouragement, Miles also is using the occasion of the brand-new Book of Discipline to discuss her own journey of self-discovery.
- She writes that she wants to use her privilege to benefit others — noting that the church still has more work to do to ensure Gay people are truly secure and welcome.
On Jan. 1, Together Methodists welcomed a modern, more inclusive Book of Discipline, which removed the punitive language about same-sex relationships.
Finally, we take our exit of the “incompatibility” clause, the infelicitous assertion dating from that same-sex relationships are “incompatible with Christian teaching.” I want to mark this happy moment by coming out as a homosexual woman.
When I was 15, I attended the United Methodist General C
UMC removes rule that homosexuality is ‘incompatible with Christian teaching’
The United Methodist Church General Conference has voted to remove a utterance from its main rulebook that declared that homosexuality was "incompatible with Christian teaching."
In a vote of to obeying around 90 minutes of debate on Thursday, the churchwide legislative gathering opted to remove a clause from the Book of Discipline, ¶ under "Qualifications for Ordination."
"The train of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching," read the clause, which had been originally added to the Publication of Discipline in
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With the vote, delegates also approved the utterance that "marriage [is] a sacred, lifelong covenant that brings two people of faith (adult male and adult miss of consenting age or two mature person persons of consenting age) into a union of one another and into deeper relationship with God and th
What’s New in Book of Discipline on Human Sexuality?
Analysis by The Rev. Taylor W Burton Edwards
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The General Conference passed more changes to statements regarding human sexuality than any previous General Conference, reversing 52 years of policies that had steadily increased restrictions on LGBTQ people. A substantial number of the changes approved involved deletions of previous content, not additions of new content. The Rev. Taylor W Burton Edwards offers an analysis in Part 5 of Ask The UMC’s series on “What’s unused in the Book of Discipline. ”Read storyRead more in series
At every General Conference from to , human sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular has been the topic that generated the most buzz, even if, from a legislative perspective, among the fewest pieces of new or revised legislation in the Book of Discipline.
The General Conference, by contrast, made more changes and passed more legislation on this topic than any in the history of American Methodism.
That said, a substanti
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Homosexuality and United Methodists in the News
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Homosexuality and the United Methodist Church own been in the news recently. A May gathering of representatives from across the globe and the recent election of an openly lesbian clergyperson to the position of bishop have highlighted deep divisions within our church. In this week’s blog upload I’ll explain what’s happened and what it means. And then Sunday at Access we’ll look at how Christians reading the same Bible come to such different conclusions about homosexuality.
The United Methodist Publication of Discipline contains our church law for how our churches may minister to and with lesbian persons. It specifies that all people may appear worship services, participate in programs, receive the sacraments of baptism and communion, and become members of a United Methodist Church. However, the Book of Discipline prohibits ordaining lesbian persons as clergy. Also, United Methodist clergy cannot officiate at same-sex weddings, and same-sex weddings cannot take place in U