The full inclusion of LGBTQ people in ordination and marriage

The Communion's 1998 Lambeth resolution upheld marriage between a man and a woman and could not advise blessing same sex unions, but the Communion has no single church government binding its forty two provinces to that resolution. The Scottish Episcopal Church has married same sex couples since 2017 and the Church in Wales has blessed same sex civil marriages since 2021, while other provinces hold the 1998 resolution as settled teaching, so the Communion holds a different account of the question altogether: that each province decides it for itself rather than the Communion deciding it once for all.

The Assemblies of God's official position paper, revised by its General Presbytery in 2014, defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman and holds that a person in a same sex relationship should not be ordained or serve in a role that models the Fellowship's teaching.

The Southern Baptist Convention's confessional statement, the Baptist Faith and Message, defines marriage as the uniting of one man and one woman in a covenant commitment, and the Convention has no path to ordination for an LGBTQ person under that confession.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Churchwide Assembly voted 559 to 451 on 21 August 2009 to open ordained ministry to clergy in publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous same gender relationships, ending a policy that had required celibacy of gay and lesbian clergy.

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s 221st General Assembly voted on 19 June 2014 to permit, not require, ministers to perform a same sex marriage where it was civilly legal, and its Book of Order was amended the following year to redefine marriage as a commitment between two people; the denomination leaves the choice to each minister and session rather than asserting the position as required teaching, which is a weaker affirmative than a body that holds it as doctrine.

The Episcopal Church ended its own moratorium on ordaining partnered gay and lesbian clergy by Resolution 2009-D025 in 2009, revised its marriage canon in 2015 to remove the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, and in 2018 guaranteed every couple access to the marriage rite even in a diocese whose own bishop objects.

The prohibitions on the ordination of LGBTQ clergy and on same sex marriage were removed at the 2024 General Conference, after a long dispute during which many congregations left the denomination.

The United Church of Christ's 25th General Synod voted by roughly four to one on 4 July 2005 to affirm equal marriage rights regardless of gender, the first mainline Protestant body in the United States to do so.

Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican's 2023 declaration on the pastoral meaning of blessings, permits a priest to offer a brief, non liturgical blessing to a same sex couple while stating explicitly that this is not an approval of their union and does not equate to marriage; ordination remains closed under the Church's own instructions. The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar publicly declined to implement even that blessing in its own dioceses the following year, so reception of Rome's own position is itself divided.