According to the United Methodist News Service:
No violation
Decision 1091 is a continuation of Decision 1081, in which the Judicial Council asked the council of finance and administration in the Western North Carolina Annual (regional) Conference to review whether the conference’s financial support of the North Carolina Council of Churches and the campus ministry at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro violates Paragraph 612.19 of the Book of Discipline, which stipulates that no conference funds can be used to promote homosexuality. After receiving the conference council of finance and administration report that it had reviewed the funding and it was not in violation of Paragraph 612.19, the council affirmed Western North Carolina Bishop J. Lawrence McCleskey’s decision of law.
Paragraph 612.19 of the Discipline says “no annual conference board, agency, committee, commission or council shall give United Methodist funds to any gay caucus or group, or otherwise use such funds to promote the acceptance of homosexuality.”
“The conference council on finance and administration is authorized by the Discipline and has the authority to make such determination,” the decision states, going on to include a gentle reminder that annual conference expenditures cannot violate Paragraph 612.19.
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