After decades of internal strife over LGBTQ issues, delaying their General Conference, and giving local churches an escape route to disaffiliate, the Methodist conference voted pro-LGBTQ earlier this month.
“After years of discernment and struggle, the United Methodist Church’s highest legislative body, the General Conference, chose grace and hospitality to govern their welcome of all people including LGBTQ persons and to allow LGBTQ persons to marry in our churches and serve as clergy,” Bishop John Schol of the United Methodists of Eastern Pennsylvania and Greater New Jersey wrote in an email to The Jersey Journal while still at the conference in North Carolina with more work to do.
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