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    United Methodist Church Votes To Keep Bans On Same-Sex Weddings, LGBTQ Clergy

    Delegated rejected change despite a Virginia pastor's warning: "You will be putting a virus into the American church that will make it very sick, and it will be sick quickly."
    by Bill Chappell Feb 26, 2019 4 minutes

    Leaders of the United Methodist Church have rejected the "One Church" plan, a measure that would have eased restrictions on gay clergy and same-sex marriages, with delegates twice voting against it at a special session of the church's General Conference.

    The One Church plan would have allowed individual churches to decide how they handle issues of same-sex weddings and the sexuality of their clergy. It seemed doomed on Monday, when only the rival "Traditional" plan received enough votes to reach a final vote today.

    Backers of the One Church plan presented it again on Tuesday by making a minority report to the meeting of nearly 1,000 delegates from churches and regional conferences worldwide. Supporters of the One Church plan again fell short, after asking delegates

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