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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I thought it would come to this and it has.  The UMC will split into two denominations with the UMC maintaining the reconciling ministry allowing LGBT clergy and allowing clergy to perform gay marriages.

A new "traditional Methodist" denomination will spin off that will follow the traditional plan that was voted on last year and set to be implemented starting yesterday that would bar clergy from conducting gay marriages and ordaining gay clergy.

I really think it is for the best.  Much like this country, the UMC has been sharply divided and polarized by this difference in opinion with predominantly the non-US churches wanting to follow the traditional plan and about 3/4 of the American churches that wanted to continue with the former policies.  The non-US churches and the smaller demographic of conservative US churches will spin off.

[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/01/03/united-methodist-church-is-expected-split-over-gay-marriage-disagreement-fracturing-nations-third-largest-denomination/[/url][/quote]

I remember when this happened to the Episcopalians. I would not be opposed to it in my own faith, Catholicism, if it mean that my daughter did not have to leave to marry the woman she loves some day.[/quote]

Your daughter can marry legally in a court of law.  The Catholic sacrament of marriage is between a man and woman.  There are sacraments that not everyone gets — the sacrament of ordination, as an obvious example.  Your daughter doesn’t have to leave Catholicism over it.[/quote]

Are you from the DC area? I’ve had friends be asked to leave the Catholic Church or not take communion (this was me)over the fact that they weren’t married in the church. You’re kidding yourself if you think Catholics would allow them to attend.[/quote]

I’m in Maryland.  I wasn’t married in Catholic Church and no one’s asked me to leave or denied me communion.  I’m not LGBT, to clarify, I was just married by a judge to a non-Catholic. [/quote]

I’m a catholic married to a non catholic and was told in a letter either not to attend or to attend and not take communion (dh never took communion but I even gave confession still). . This was last year. My dh is very religious and had no issue attending, tithing, sending our kids to catholic schools but drew the line at RCIA or saying new vows.. They sent the letter when I had a baby I wanted baptized. I remember crying for weeks over it. This was in the Arlington diocese. [/quote]

That sucks, I’m sorry.  I understand that the Arlington diocese is the most conservative in the country.  That letter kinda baffles me because there’s nothing in the Catechism that supports that.  Mixed marriages are fine, the goal is to raise the kids in the faith and grow closer to Christ in your marriage.  I have heard you can have a civil marriage “convalidated” if your spouse is not Catholic and that’s supposed to make it a Catholic marriage for the Catholic partner but I don’t know whether that would solve your predicament.  Again, you have my sympathy. [/quote]

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