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United Methodist Church Votes To Keep Bans On Same-Sex Weddings, LGBTQ Clergy
By: Bill Chappell | NPR
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Delegates rejected change despite a Virginia pastor’s warning: “You will be putting a virus into the American church that will make it very sick, and it will be sick quickly.”