human sexuality

Fuller seminary senior director fired for refusal to sign non-LGBTQ affirming statement

By Kathryn Post — February 2, 2024
(RNS) — Her termination comes as the evangelical, multidenominational seminary is re-visiting its approach to human sexuality.

South Carolina’s largest UMC church set to leave denomination

By Yonat Shimron — January 9, 2023
(RNS) — Mt. Horeb is one of several large churches in the United Methodist Church that have either voted to leave or are about to.

Mormon leader reaffirms faith’s opposition to gay marriage

By Yonat Shimron — September 30, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dallin H. Oaks told members of the nearly 16-million member faith watching around the world that the religion's 1995 document — "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" — won't change.

United Methodists to hold special session on LGBTQ inclusion in 2019

By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 25, 2017
(RNS) At last year's meeting in Portland, Ore., United Methodists voted to defer all decisions about human sexuality to a specially appointed commission and left the door open for a special session.

Bishops admit: We don’t know much about sex, need married advisers

By Rosie Scammell — October 16, 2015
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Fourteen married couples and other lay people have been brought in to fill the gaps in the churchmen's knowledge, advising the 270 bishops as they discuss family issues.
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