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My wife does the secretarial work for a Methodist church here, so I've been hearing alot about the goings on within the Methodist church leading up to this vote. They took a vote today and voted for the traditional plan which adheres to the Book of Discipline, which upholds the bans on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT clergy.
The Latest: Methodist conference rejects same-sex marriage
There were three different plans they were voting on. The plan they voted on allows the church to remain intact. Another plan would have allowed some churches to ban same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT clergy, and other churches to allow it. The problem with that plan was the fear of LGBT churches engaging the traditional churches in a torrent of lawsuits, as the LGBT is fond of doing.
The other issue is that the Methodist church owns all of the buildings and land, so another church couldn't just split off and form their own LGBT-tolerant church without purchasing the building and the land. It was a complicated mess, but they made the right decision.
The Latest: Methodist conference rejects same-sex marriage
There were three different plans they were voting on. The plan they voted on allows the church to remain intact. Another plan would have allowed some churches to ban same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT clergy, and other churches to allow it. The problem with that plan was the fear of LGBT churches engaging the traditional churches in a torrent of lawsuits, as the LGBT is fond of doing.
The other issue is that the Methodist church owns all of the buildings and land, so another church couldn't just split off and form their own LGBT-tolerant church without purchasing the building and the land. It was a complicated mess, but they made the right decision.