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The United Methodist Church (@UMChurch) has wrongly voted to reject LGBTQ inclusion, after many years of work & support by LGBTQ members.

Thankfully, people who love deeply & without condition are the real Church, and LOVE itself...is the real religion.

#GC2019 #LGBTVoices
Go ahead and WEAVE YOUR FICTION into the life & words of Jesus Christ, @UMChurch. Know this - doing so destroys the church & mocks the Holy Spirit and the words/life of Jesus Christ. There IS no greater sin.

#GC2019 #GCUMC
As a person who is part of many, many (MANY) generations who existed within the UMC, and whose family STARTED one of the first UMC churches -- I am incredibly disappointed. However, I hesitate to go so far as to say anyone should just give up on @UMChurch
I would implore our hetero friends and allies who are thinking of LEAVING the United Methodist Church to consider this...

if you walk away:
🌿WHO carries on 'the Good Fight'?
🌿WHO is left to speak the truth?
🌿WHO remains to BE the change you wish to see?

@UMChurch #GC2019
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@CaptJaneway2017
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Robert #Resist Sandy
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This month a Special Session of the General Conference of the United Methodist Church will meet to consider the church's way forward on what level of #LGBTQ inclusion the global Church will officially adopt into it's Book of Discipline. @UMChurch

1/
 umc.org/who-we-are/uni…
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*Thread*

I rarely make reference to religion here beyond noting the extreme hypocrisy permeating the evangelical Christian movement's support of @realDonaldTrump.

But next month @UMChurch will make a decision with far reaching implications and I feel compelled to comment.

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In January 2017 the General Conference of the United Methodist Church appointed a 32 member body called the 'Commission on a Way Forward' to examine the church's official policies regarding the $LGBTQ community.

The Commission studied the issue for a year.

@UMChurch

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In March of 2018 they issued their findings. Their report was made public and handed over last year to the Council of Bishops for examination who spent weeks examining and considering its content.

For some background on the Commission:

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