United Methodist congregations that lean toward the church’s “traditionalist” stance on LGBTQ issues prepare to spin off into a new denomination.
A negotiating team within the United Methodist Church has developed a plan for splitting the denomination, whose members are at an impasse over whether to allow same-sex marriage and the ordination of gay clergy.
The church said the proposal was drafted by a 16-member group of bishops and other church leaders with the help of Kenneth Feinberg, who led negotiations with the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In North Carolina, the denomination is divided into two conferences, with more than 650,000 members as of 2010.
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