¶612.19
Passed:
Accepted: To ensure that 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 or violate the express commitment of the UMC "not to reject or condemn lesbain and gay members and friends." (¶161.G).
This shall include ensuring that no such funds are used to support any
United Methodist campus ministry that through its official programming
or a formal caucus affiliation opposes the biblical understanding that
sexual relations are only appropriate within heterosexual marriage. The
council shall have the right to stop such expenditures. This
restriction shall not limit the Church's ministry in response to the
HIV epidemic, nor shall it preclude funding for dialogs or educational
events where the Church's official position is fairly and equally
represented.
2004 Book of Discipline:
To ensure that 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 council shall have the right to stop such expenditures. This restriction shall not limit the Church’s ministry in response to the HIV epidemic, nor shall it preclude funding for dialogs or educational events where the Church’s official position is fairly and equally represented.
Reference:
Funding Restriction Clarity (80502-FA-¶612.19)
¶806.9
2004 Book of Discipline:
[The General Council on Finance and Administration of The United Methodist Church] shall be responsible for ensuring that no 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 council shall have the right to stop such expenditures. This restriction shall not limit the Church’s ministry in response to the HIV epidemic.
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