Opinion: Delegates from Africa are driving the United Methodist Church’s defense of traditionalism, writes markdtooley
The United Methodist Church voted last week to uphold its rule that clergy remain celibate if single or monogamous if married. It also reaffirmed its ban on same-sex marriage. United Methodism is nearly the only major historically liberal mainline Protestant denomination to retain such stances on sex.
How did this happen? As America’s third-largest religious denomination, United Methodism has 6.8 million members in the U.S.—but nearly six million more overseas. Its foreign members participate fully in the church’s governing...
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