“I think we will undergo significant split throughout Texas.' Following years-long disputes within the United Methodist Church over same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy, a breakaway sect called the Global Methodist Church launched on May 1.
A rainbow gay pride flag flies below the U.S. flag last year in front of the Asbury United Methodist Church in Prairie Village, Kan.
Jones said the church officially prohibits same-sex marriages and members of the LGBTQ community from being in the ministry, but several bishops and conferences have deliberately disobeyed those rules for some time. The statement adds that for the next 12 to 18 months, the GMC will be a “church in transition” as it prepares for its convening conference.
“The process is lengthy and includes a time of discernment, education and prayer. We would not be able to speculate on a total at this time,” she said. “United Methodism is made up of conservatives, centrists and liberals. It's a very diverse denomination of age, of ethnicity, of theology. It's not a liberal church. It's not a conservative church. It's not a centrist church. In fact, it's all of those,” he said. But he conceded that over time, the issue of same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy were just two factors.
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