The “United” in “United Methodist Church” (UMC) has always been aspirational. The UMC was founded in 1968, when the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren Churches joined forces, marking the apex of denominational mergers in the twentieth century. But ever since, the UMC has been in numerical decline and in turmoil over human sexuality. And last week, it finally came apart. At the UMC’s General Conference (GC)—the meeting of the denomination’s highest legislative body every four years—the denomination officially voted to end its fifty-year ban on same-sex weddings and on the ordination of LGBTQ clergy. All prohibitions regarding LGBTQ ordination and marriage were removed.