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(Woke Preacher TV) At the United Methodist Church General Conference held in 2024, Dawn Wiggins Hare and Giovanni Arroyo gave “monitoring reports” on diversity, equity + inclusion (DEI) for the denomination’s legislative proceedings. Here are the highlights of their work.

This entire post ripped from Woke Preacher TV’s YouTube post, with permission.

The United Methodist Church has made it official, with delegates at the 2024 General Conference voting 692-51 to overturn their longstanding-on-paper-but-not-in-practice ban on LGBTQ clergy, which formerly prohibited “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ministers. 

It’s a thoroughly unsurprising move, given that the United Methodist Church in the United States has lost one-fourth of its churches in the last four years over their acceptance of same-sex marriage in what has become the most significant denominational divide in the country in the previous 150 years. According to United Methodist News, 7660 congregations have disaffiliated from the demented denomination, including 5642 this year alone.

With no more conservative factions to keep fighting and not having had a General Conference for five years over COVID concerns, the devil’s denomination was eager to start damning themselves.

And they did.  

Applause, cheers, and weeping for joy broke out through the convention hall, both from wayward goats populating the denomination, as well as from demons circling the convention, cracking a smile and winking at each other for another job well done. 

The United Methodist continues its slow slide into oblivion and irrelevancy, and a new measure from the UMC’s General Conference will only speed up and exacerbate their doom. 

On Thursday, delegates at the plenary session of their conference voted 586-164 in favor of an amendment to allow the church to regionalize so that different UMC regions across the globe would be able to implement their own standards for acceptance of homosexuals practices and women’s ordination. 

The denomination is splintered worldwide, with deep rifts between the United States and Africa, the latter which is far more conservative than their American counterparts.

Despite the UMC Book of Discipline prohibiting the ordination of non-celibate gay priests and blessing same-sex marriages, the American churches have been defying the precepts, much to the dismay and contempt of African churches who have been strenuously pushing back against queer and trans radicals working on dragging their concretions into hell. 

Progressives seeking a “yes” vote believe that if each region is allowed to set its own standards and have its own region-specific ‘Book of Discipline,’ it will nullify the influence of conservative delegates, freeing the western factions to give themselves entirely over to degeneracy and sexual hedonism away from the ‘tut-tutting’ of its detractors.

Earlier this year, the UMC proposed its smallest budget in 40 years, the result of a mass exodus of churches from the demonic denomination following their decision to become LGBTQ-affirming.

The United Methodist Church in the United States has lost one-fourth of its churches in the last four years over their acceptance of same-sex marriage, in what has become the most significant denominational divide in the country in the previous 150 years. According to United Methodist News, 7660 congregations have disaffiliated from the demented denomination, including 5642 this year alone.

According to United Methodist News, “To be ratified, the amendment also will need at least a two-thirds total vote of annual conference lay and clergy voters.”

In a bit of good news, the apostate United Methodist Church (UMC) has proposed its smallest budget in 40 years, the result of a mass exodus of churches from the demonic denomination following their decision to become LGBTQ-affirming.

The United Methodist Church in the United States has lost one-fourth of its churches in the last four years over their acceptance of same-sex marriage, in what has become the most significant denominational divide in the country in the last 150 years. According to United Methodist News, 7660 congregations have disaffiliated from the demented denomination, including 5642 this year alone.

The losses result in smaller budgets, resulting in leadership “rethinking ministry expenses at all levels of the denomination” as they wrestle with “the biggest budget drop in the denomination’s history.” In 2016, the General Conference approved a budget of $604M. For 2025-2028, they’re looking at $346M, a reduction of nearly 43%, and their smallest budget since 1984.

The smaller budget means that congregations and special projects will have less funding, a death knell for smaller denominations who will begin to feel the pain of more prominent (and wealthier) churches leaving.

Awesome!

The United Methodist Church in the United States has lost one-fourth of its churches in the last four years over their acceptance of same-sex marriage, in what has become the most significant denominational divide in the country in the last 150 years. 

According to United Methodist News, 7660 congregations have disaffiliated from the demented denomination, including 5642 this year alone.

The UMC has over 30.000 churches in the United States and is the second biggest denomination behind the Southern Baptist Convention. In many cases, however, the UMC did not let them leave on peaceful terms but rather requested huge fees to keep their church buildings- sometimes up to half the cost of the property. Some state conventions have refused to offer buyout options, insisting that those choosing to leave must leave their church behind- real estate that is often worth millions- resulting in lawsuits and other legal action.

With the latest exodus, the faithful are by and large all gone, with the remaining churches populated by goatlings with Christian ideations that can’t agree on how badly they hate the bible or on the best way to molest it into affirming the doctrine of demons.

While the main reason for splitting is the long-fought war within the UMC over homosexuality and the UMC’s acceptance of it, it’s of note that the conservatives within the UMC aren’t particularly conservative either. For years the UMC has supported a woman’s right to choose abortion as an option to be considered. In fact, for over 40 years, their Book of Resolutions affirmed the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. 

They support strict gun control and even guns being banned altogether. They allow women leadership into the highest level of leadership, condemn capital punishment, and condemn creationism.

Out of the 7660 churches leaving, only a fraction would even be worth attending. 

(Juicy Ecumenism) As of Saturday, November 18, nearly 7,300 churches have exited United Methodism, more than 24 percent of total U.S. churches. But some churches, despite voting by the required two thirds of the congregation, have been petulantly denied exit, including four in the North Georgia Annual Conference on Saturday. Such churches are then punished and/or shattered.

Iowa approved 59 more exits, and Missouri approved 20 more. But the big vote was in North Georgia, which approved 261 more exits. Late last year, North Georgia’s departing bishop, on nearly her last day before moving to another conference, instituted a ban on further exits. But 186 churches litigated and won, forcing the conference, under a new bishop, to ratify more exits.

But the special North Georgia Annual Conference on Saturday refused exit for four churches. There was no justification but petulance. These churches had.. to continue reading click here.

This article was written by Mark Tooley and published at Juicy Ecumenism.