Methodist Annual Meeting to Discuss Homosexuality

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Nearly 1,000 delegates representing 12 million church members are on hand in Tampa for the 2012 United Methodist General Conference, where homosexuality is the top issue.

The General Conference, the only body that officially speaks for the denomination, meets every four years to determine future direction. Mark Tooley of The Institute on Religion & Democracy is there, and says the potential ordination of actively homosexual clergy and the issue of same-sex “marriage” are major concerns.

The church’s official stances are biblical and require clergy to be monogamous in traditional marriage, or celibate, if single, and also prohibit any celebration of same-sex unions in Methodist churches. Liberals in the church are hoping to change that.

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Leviticus 18:22
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.(NKJV)