United Methodist Church Bans Intelligent Design Group From General Conference

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The United Methodist Church has rejected an Intelligent Design group’s request to have an information table at the denomination’s 2016 General Conference.

Reaffirming a decision from December, the UMC’s Commission on the General Conference decided last week to not allow the Seattle-based Discovery Institute an information table at the Mainline Protestant denomination’s gathering in Portland, Oregon.

Diane Degnan, spokeswoman for the UMC, told The Christian Post that this was the first General Conference to allow for “outside exhibitors.”

“The Commission on the General Conference determined that the application by the Discovery Institute did not meet the guidelines established for exhibitors in that it was not consistent with the purpose of the exhibitor program,” said Degnan.

Read more at christianpost.com/news/united-methodist-church-bans-intelligent-design-group-general-conference-creation-evolution-155368/#StJ0FOlg54GXUmSL.99

Editor’s note.
As far as I am aware, there is still a ban on the evolution topic here on CAF.
So let’s keep any discussion on topic: the ban itself.