Homosexuality and the Church
Oct 18, 2022
Tensions over same-sex marriage and pastor ordination of practicing homosexuals reached a breaking point with the 2019 special UM General Conference. The conference voted 438-384 to continue the UM policy to not endorse same-sex weddings and “self-avowed practicing” gay clergy. The relatively narrow vote did not settle the debate but instead sparked widespread resistance and accelerated discussions of a denominational divorce.