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United Methodists vote to allow gay clergy. How will Texas churches respond&;#63;
Robert Blain‚ a Houston public high school teacher‚ saw many friends leave the United Methodist Church in recent years because of the denomination's ban gay clergy. But on Wednesday‚ Blain celebrated when reading news posted on X that the majority of UMC delegates at the annual General Conference in Charlottesville‚ N.C. agreed to remove a 40-year-old rule forbidding &;quot;self-avowed practicing homosexuals&;quot; from taking leadership positions in the church. The group also...