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Methodists end anti-gay bans, closing 50 years of battles over sexuality for mainline Protestants

When the United Methodist Church removed anti-gay language from its official rules last week, it marked the end of a half-century of debates over LGBTQ inclusion in America’s mainline Protestant denominations.