This page will try to keep up with stories of disaffiliations by churches, schools, and organizations, and formal charges against pastors who fit the new definitions of "homosexual" or who choose to marry same-gender couples.
Note that the disaffiliation plan approved at the February General Conference has been declared null and void by the investigation into the voting irregularities at the Conference. See this article and this article.
Two Large Texas Churches Vote To Disaffiliate (UMNews, Aug. 9, 2022)
Mosaic UMC, OKC, claims "year of holy resistance" and will disaffiliate if no positive changes at GC2020 (PDF).
9 New England churches consider disaffiliation (UMNews, Sept. 26, 2019)
Anna Blaedel faces yet another trial in a long series of trials. (UM-Insight, July 30, 2019)
Strong statement against disaffiliation from California-Nevada Extended Cabinet. ... calls for work to facilitate exit of WCA and Good News churches.. (Cal-Nev, July 1, 2019)
Seven Mississippi Churches Disaffiliate after Annual Conference votes to allow. Long-standing issues with denomination....Property stays with Conference; suit filed.
University of Mount Union Disaffiliates ...the Board of Trustees decided to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church, while affirming the importance, for the University’s future, of vibrant campus ministry and spiritual life programs. ...The University will continue to emphasize its Methodist and Wesleyan heritage and commitments.
Colorado Springs Methodists consider leaving historic denomination amid LGBTQ exclusion "For decades, Methodists have stuck together while arguing about human sexuality. Now, it looks increasingly likely that their denomination is headed for the same kind of divorce that divided Presbyterian and Episcopalian groups." Pastors Olon Lindemood and David Amrie talk about their grief over the death of the UMC in this long and thorough article.
A black licensed local pastor is terminated because he raised the possibility of disaffiliation (though it is unclear whether it was due to the limited application of JCD 1379 to conscience differences over sexuality).
Baldwin-Wallace University, Berea, Ohio, has ended its affiliation with the UMC.
Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware and Otterbein University in Westerville are waiting to see the outome before they disaffiliate, but they disagree with the new stances. "We are deeply uncomfortable with the church in its current position and would not remain in a long-term relationship if that’s the only expression of Methodism,” Ohio Wesleyan's President Rock Jones said.
Rev. Anna Blaedel, director of the University of Iowa's Wesley Center is resigning. Blaedel, 37, "has been actively under complaint from the United Methodist Church for more than a year for being out about their sexuality. Blaedel has received two other formal complaints related to queer issues since 2016." However, Blaedel will continue to respond to the complaints. (Note that the new, more restrictive minimum sentences don't take effect until January 1, 2020.)
Outspoken LGBTQ advocate the Rev. Andy Oliver faces charges in the Florida Annual Conference for having performed a wedding for a lesbian couple. Oliver's "congregation took out a full-page newspaper ad to apologize for the decision. His church website announces that it provides 'an altar for all' and is committed 'to support and celebrate same-sex marriages.'"