# The Methodist Church is splitting **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 4, 2020, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-methodist-church-is-splitting/845926 "2020-01-04T06:20:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 182
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-methodist-church-is-splitting/845926/182 "2023-05-24T14:47:51Z")
The bigots gonna bigot. More recent thread on similar topic: > [@Disaffiliation, the UMC, and Me. (and you?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disaffiliation-the-umc-and-me-and-you/979593): > > The short version is that on Super Bowl Sunday, at approximately Super Bowl kick-off time, my congregation of the United Methodist Church will be voting on whether to disaffiliate in accordance with the rules of Paragraph 2553. According to our pastor, the UMC has left us, but it isn’t really about LGBTQ+ rights, but . . . because of the way Paragraph 2553 is written, we have to claim that it is about LGBTQ+ rights in order to leave. I am angry that this is a thing, and more than a little anno… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-methodist-church-is-splitting/845926)._