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Local churches could choose to follow their regional governing body or join another one based on the policy toward gay church members. The General Conference meeting began with prayer on Saturday. Louis, Missouri, where Methodists are gathered for a special General Conference session at the Dome of the Americas. As United Methodists gather to discuss the future of gay people in the church, the Rev. According to Harker, every delegate she has spoken with has received numerous emails and letters from Oklahoma Methodists and beyond, as people voice their opinions about the direction the denomination should take in the coming days. .

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Louis during the morning of December 18, 2014. India is now one of more than 120 countries to have effectively decriminalised homosexuality. It will be healthy for the Church because for the last couple of years, some churches and agencies have been in a holding pattern. Discussion and voting on the issue of gay rights in the Church is expected to begin on Sunday and continue through Tuesday. Luke's United Methodist in downtown Oklahoma City, said no matter what delegates decide, the consequences will potentially be significant.

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Louis decide, the decision will rank right up there with two other momentous decisions in the history of the Church, some Oklahoma delegates said. The church convenes its top legislative assembly this weekend. One, the Traditionalist Plan, will maintain language in the denomination's Book of Discipline that homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching. There are just different world views so this a test of United Methodism for what perspective rules out. Jimmy Nunn, bishop of the Oklahoma United Methodist Conference and Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference, said he and other Methodist bishops will attend the gathering to preside and maintain unity. Trina Bose North, senior pastor of Crown Heights United Methodist Church, said she will be in St. I just hope the community will pray for us.

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He said he has tried to be a calming influence in the months leading up to the General Conference session. Linda Harker, leader of the Oklahoma delegation to the United Methodist General Conference in St. Another proposal, called the One Church Plan, would allow individual churches and clergy to decide on gay weddings and Methodist conferences regional jurisdictional bodies to decide on the question of gay ordination. Bob Long, senior pastor of St. There's just no middle ground to it because there's just such polarization.

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Thousands marched through Delhi's main street in the first gay pride parade since homosexuality was decriminalised in India. Harker, senior pastor of McFarlin United Methodist Church in Norman, is leader of a 14-member delegation from the Oklahoma United Methodist Conference and Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference. We just need to go and take that first vote. This 2017 photo provided by United Methodist News Service shows the Book of Discipline which contains the rules that guide The United Methodist Church. Bill Junk of Edmond, one of the lay delegates, said he is ready for the denomination to vote on the matter because it has put the issue off at previous meetings. Louis, Missouri, stands outside McFarlin United Methodist Church in Norman, where she is senior pastor.


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We need to get something decided and move on. The controversial law was briefly repealed in 2009 but was reimposed on appeal by religious groups in the supreme court in 2014. Momentous decision Whatever Methodists gathered in St. . .

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