Methodists

The church announced its intention to disaffiliate from the wider United Methodist Church after its pastor was removed as pastor and suggested it was because of the church’s “conservative” stances.

The “welcoming, all-inclusive congregation” in Georgia is the first in the country to break away due to the Methodists’ anti-LGBTQ stances.

“We want to surround that message of hate with a message of love, and that’s what we’ve received since.”

Cuba’s proposed new constitution defines marriage as “the consensual union of two people, regardless of gender.”

This clergy member feels a calling to be a “visibly trans person” ordained by a church that still officially bans LGB clergy.

The presumptive Republican nominee preached to the choir and won a standing ovation from hundreds of conservative Christians.

The Governor sits a few pews away from the lesbian couple who sued to overturn the state’s ban on adoption by same-sex parents.

A Michigan pastor has been sleeping outside in a tent for weeks to protest his denomination’s stance on LGBT people.

Gay clergy and same-sex marriage may soon be allowed at United Methodist Churches under a proposal drafted by the Connectional Table, a respected international body of clergy members and lay people in the church.

A church statement says the case against retired Bishop Melvin G. Talbert is ending with a settlement that the denomination calls a “just resolution.”