Thanks to a huge wave of refusal by African, South American, Asian, and Russian/Eastern European Methodists, a plan to weaken the Church by allowing Gay Clergy and Gay Marriage was soundly defeated and the Book of Discipline was tightened to suspend without pay, then "defrock" Clergy who perform Gay Marriages.
It's funny how Progressive Christians behave when they're in the minority vs. majority.
The Majority in the Espicopal Church refused to let conservative churches leave, took their churches away, scuttled pensions of retired conservative priests, and in one case sold it to an Islamic Group just to be pricks.
But the now-minority in the United Methodist Church is begging for a continuation of pensions, and an equal distribution of cash and property.
Progressives - Cruel in Power, Craven in Weakness.
Why does every Methodist church I drive by have some type of rainbow symbol on it's property?
The ones in Korea, Kenya, etc. do not.
The Africans on the floor of the convention actually told White Lesbian Massholes to stop being colonialist when they tried to "Explain" why the centuries old writings of Wesley and Whitfield were wrong and Postmodernism Right.
http://www.umc.org/who-we-are/what-happened-and-what-didnt-at-general-conference-2019