Baltimore-Washington Conference · 2025Adopted
Conference-Wide Opportunity to Embrace our LGBTQ+ Siblings
Calls on the bishop, cabinet, staff, and boards to actively support LGBTQ+ laity, clergy, and candidates and to center and amplify LGBTQ+ voices — especially transgender and BIPOC persons — with BWARM curating local-church resources. One of eight resolutions passed at the 2025 session.
Language (excerpt / summary)
“Much harm occurred over years of discrimination in our United Methodist Denomination against the LGBTQ+ community,” and healing “comes through intentional opportunities to repair that damage.”
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