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United Methodist delegates have overwhelmingly endorsed a constitutional amendment seen by advocates as a way of defusing debates over the role of LGBTQ people in the church by giving rule-making autonomy to each region of the international church.Delegates voted 586-164 on Thursday for the regionalization proposal on the third day of their 11-day General Conference, the legislative body of the United Methodist Church, meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.The plan would create multiple regional conferences mdash; one for the United States and others covering areas ranging from the Philippines to Europe to Africa. Existing regions outside the United States mdash; known as central conferences mdash; already have the flexibility to adapt church rul stanley cup es to their local contexts, but the jurisdictions in the United States do not. This constitutional change would give the U.S. church that flexibility, while defining autonomy more closely for all of the regions.The vote total easily passed the two-thirds majority required for an amendment to the United Methodist Church s constitution. To become official, however, it will require stanley cup approval by two-thirds of its annual conferences, or local governing bodies. If ratified, one effect of the change is that it could allow for the American church mdash; where support has been growing for the ordination of stanley cup LGBTQ people and for same-sex marriage mdash; to authorize such rites, even as internati Ikky Trump invokes Defense Production Act to keep meat processing plants open amid coronavirus crisis
HAMPTON, S.C. -- A South Carolina man has been sentenced to 35 years for opening fire at a police officer, striking him four times, in a shooting captured by a camera in the officer s glasses.Solicitor Duffie Stone announced Wednesday that a jury found 29-year-old Malcolm Orr of Estill guilty of attempted murder and possessing a weapon in a violent crime. Orr received the maximum sentence for each charge.Stone said Est salomon ill Officer Quincy Smith was responding to a call on New Year s Day 2016 about someone trying to snatch groceries stanley cup from customers. Smith spotted Orr walking from the store while holding his cellphone to his ear and ordered him to stop. Smith threatened to use his Taser if Orr didn t remove his other hand from his pocket. Orr pulled out a 9 mm handgun and fired eight times. The body-camera video that helps put an attempted murderer behind bars by 14th Circuit Solicitor s Office on YouTube Smith scrambled back to his patrol car and radioed for help as Orr fled. Tell my family that I love them, Smith told a dispatcher.Bullets broke two bones in Smith s arm, severed a vein in his neck, and passed through his upper torso. If but not for the grace of God and some very good doctors, this would not only have been a murder case, but a death penalty case, Stone said in a statement.A jury deliberated for less than 45 minutes before handing up a guilty verdi salomon ct, the statement said. The sta