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The United Methodist Church is Finally Repenting of Its LGBTQ Discrimination
The United Methodist Church recently decided to reverse its ban on LGBTQ clergy.
As someone who served in the UMC for 17 years, nearly a decade of those in one of the 100 largest churches in the country—it's about damn time!
Traveling this country and engaging thousands of Christians every month, I encounter local faith communities both inside and outside the United Methodist Church, who claim to be LGBTQ-affirming or LGBTQ-inclusive but who want to do so with all sorts of caveats or conditions in place. They aspire to see themselves as open to diversity in areas of sexuality but with…
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