Thousands of United Methodists are gathered in Portland, Ore., as church delegates prepare to vote on new guidelines for the denomination. The quadrennial General Conference will renew a long-standing debate on the church’s official stance against gay marriage and gay clergy. “This has been a source of great dispute for
four and a half decades, and I don’t think the General Conference is going to change that anytime soon,” said Charles Cox, a retired pastor of Dallas’ Grace United Methodist Church. At the 1972 conference, the denomination’s Book of Discipline was amended to make it clear “the United Methodist Church does not condone the practice of homosexuality and considers this practice incompatible
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