Largest US Protestant churches on gay clergy

 
The Associated Press
Published: February 27, 2010

A look at where the largest Protestant churches in the United States stand on gay clergy:

— UNITED METHODIST CHURCH : 7.9 million U.S. members. The most conservative of the largest mainline denominations on gay clergy. An effort to repeal a ban on noncelibate gay clergy failed at the church's last General Conference, in 2008.

—EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA: 4.7 million U.S. members. The chu...


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