(Mike DuBose/UMNS via AP) This 2017 photo provided by the United Methodist News Service shows the Book of Discipline which contains the rules that guide the United Methodist Church. The church convenes its top legislative assembly Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019, for a high-stakes four-day meeting likely to determine whether America's second-largest Protestant denomination will fracture due to long-simmering divisions over same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBTQ clergy.
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