Though I have considered myself a member of the LGBT community for literally decades, if not for our oppression within an overarching sexist, heterosexist, and cissexist society, nothing else holds us together since we are all unique individuals with diverse interests and political concerns. . ..…
Now that UMC has voted to reaffirm its stance against homosexuality and toughen punishments for churches and clergy that violate its teachings, number of progressive churches might consider leaving the denomination. ..…
Activists will target churches who counsel LGBT people, therapist warns ‘God’s Voice’ conference . ... Men and women who left gay and transgender lives march to the White House with the Freedom March on May 5, 2018. | (Photo: The Christian Post) A psychotherapist has warned a Christian..…
LOUIS — The top policymaking body of United Methodist Church voted to reinforce the denomination's bans on same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy instead of lift them. . ... America's second-largest Protestant denomination faces likely fracture as delegates at the crucial meeting move to..…
United Methodists have strengthened their opposition to LGBT clergy and same sex marriages in defining vote after decades of rifts over the issues.. ... By the delegates twice during the conference, plan championed by majority of bishops would have allowed individual churches to decide whether to..…
Delegates then took up competing measure, known as Traditional Plan, that would tighten enforcement of LGBT bans and encourage Methodists. About 43 percent of the delegates are from abroad, mostly from Africa, support LGBT bans.. ..…
Still, discriminatory comments against the LGBT community are not uncommon in the country. ..…
It is not enough that your sexual orientation is homosexual, for example — no, you must also live the LGBT lifestyle. ... For saying this, she was dropped as an ambassador for the LGBT sports body, Athlete Ally. ..…
- The United Methodist Church voted on Tuesday to uphold and strengthen its ban on same-sex marriage and LGBT in move likely to alienate large numbers of followers. ... Berlin, Virginia, said with the new plan in place, some church members would risk losing their credentials to practice their..…