The United Methodist Church Should Split Over LGBTQ+ Inclusion

Emily Swan
6 min readFeb 13, 2019

As a pastor who was outed and fired from a church denomination for being being engaged to my now wife, I think the United Methodist Church (UMC) should just split already.

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On Saturday, February 23, delegates from the UMC will gather in St. Louis to vote on whether or not to change the language in the Methodist Church Book of Discipline, which currently holds…

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Emily Swan

Co-Author with Ken Wilson of Solus Jesus: A Theology of Resistance, and co-pastor of Blue Ocean Faith Ann Arbor, a progressive, fully-inclusive church. Queer.