UMC ends funding ban on LGBT advocacy groups, scraps punishment for officiating gay weddings

The United Methodist Church General Conference voted to drop a ban on funding LGBT advocacy groups and removed a required punishment for pastors who officiate gay weddings after thousands of theologically conservative congregations left the mainline Protestant denomination in the last two years.  #UnitedMethodistChurch #GeneralConference #LGBT #UMC #schism

​The United Methodist Church General Conference voted to drop a ban on funding LGBT advocacy groups and removed a required punishment for pastors who officiate gay weddings after thousands of theologically conservative congregations left the mainline Protestant denomination in the last two years.  #UnitedMethodistChurch #GeneralConference #LGBT #UMC #schism