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To: SoFloFreeper
The “official” UMC position is to NOT celebrate sodomy

Just what UMC church do you go to? Ain't seen anything in writing anywhere where they flat out agree with the Bible's condemnation of sodomy.

32 posted on 03/19/2013 6:39:45 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: laweeks

Only the General Conference speaks for The United Methodist Church. When the lay and clergy delegates to General Conference approve a statement, it is published in the Book of Discipline and/or the Book of Resolutions. These words come from the people of The United Methodist Church.

http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=4746363&ct=3169111

From The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church - 2012.
http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=5066287&content_id={1F927523-A422-4005-BA60-517220DB6D1E}&notoc=1

161 B) Marriage—We affirm the sanctity of the marriage covenant that is expressed in love, mutual support, personal commitment, and shared fidelity between a man and a woman. We believe that God’s blessing rests upon such marriage, whether or not there are children of the union. We reject social norms that assume different standards for women than for men in marriage. We support laws in civil society that define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.


42 posted on 03/19/2013 7:45:04 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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