UM News, the United Methodist Church's own news service, contemporary report that delegates at the denomination's General Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, voted 692 to 51 on 1 May 2024 to strike the denomination's 1984 rule barring the ordination of any self-avowed practicing homosexual, as part of a bundled consent calendar of twenty two measures passed without debate.
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AuthorHeather Hahn
PublisherUnited Methodist News Service
Publication Year2024
URLhttps://www.umnews.org/en/news/40-year-ban-on-gay-clergy-struck-down
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Reliability Tier2
The denomination's own news service reporting on its own General Conference's recorded vote, tier 2 for a primary institutional account naming the exact tally and rule struck down, corroborated independently by the Christianity Today account below. NotesUsed for the exact 692 to 51 vote tally, the 1984 origin date of the rule, and the consent calendar detail.
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This source names North Carolina directly: "General Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, voted 692 to 51 on 1 May 2024 to strike the denomination's 1984 rule barring the ordination of any self-avowed practicing homosexual, as part of a..."
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