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After vote to repeal LGBTQ bans, many gay Methodists are now fully out

On the first Sunday after the conclusion of the denomination’s General Conference, many queer United Methodists celebrated their release from the tight and narrow spaces that had confined them.

The Rev. Charles Daly gives Communion bread to a congregant at Sunday services at Epworth United Methodist Church in Durham, North Carolina, on May 5, 2024. RNS photo by Yonat Shimron

Durham, N.C. (RNS) — On the same day that United Methodist delegates voted to repeal their denomination’s condemnation of homosexuality from its rulebook, the Rev. Charles Daly drove a big hulking church bus to the Charlotte Convention Center with a handful of church members in tow.

Maneuvering the bus into a parking lot that Thursday was tricky. The bus was too tall to clear the overhang at the entrance to one lot, and he had to...

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