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The United Methodist Church will allow regions of the global body to maintain biblical standards on sexual ethics, following the denomination's vote last year to remove such rules.

Amendment I, which allows for a denominational structure known as regionalization, had passed with a tally of 34,148 yes votes to 3,124 no votes, well above the needed two-thirds majority.

The amendment allows regional conferences of the denomination to make their own edits to certain parts of the UMC's Book of Discipline that apply to their region of the world.

The regional conferences make up different parts of the global denomination and are themselves comprised of the comparatively more locally-based annual conferences.

Three other UMC constitutional amendments were also passed with overwhelm

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