Editing Mennonites (section)

=== Sexuality, marriage, and family mores ===
{{See also|Homosexuality and Mennonites}}
Most Mennonite denominations hold a conservative position on homosexuality.<ref name="Donald B. Kraybill 2010, p. 108">Donald B. Kraybill, ''Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites'', JHU Press, USA, 2010, p. 108</ref>

The Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests was founded in 1976 in the United States and has member churches of different denominations in the United States and Canada.<ref name="Donald B. Kraybill 2010, p. 108"/>

The [[Mennonite Church Canada]] leaves the choice to each church for [[same-sex marriage]].<ref>Dan Dyck et Dick Benner, [https://canadianmennonite.org/stories/delegates-vote-allow-space-differences Delegates vote to allow space for differences] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109054016/https://canadianmennonite.org/stories/delegates-vote-allow-space-differences |date=9 November 2020 }}, canadianmennonite.org, Canada, 20 July 2016</ref>

The [[Mennonites in the Netherlands|Mennonite Church in the Netherlands]] and the [[Mennonite Church USA]] which had 62,000 members in 2021, about 12% of American Mennonites,<ref>mennoniteusa.org</ref> permit [[same-sex marriage]].<ref>Susan M. Shaw, ''Women and Religion: Global Lives in Focus'', ABC-CLIO, USA, 2021, p. 96</ref><ref>Paul Schrag, [https://anabaptistworld.org/delegates-repeal-membership-guidelines-pass-lgbtq-affirming-resolution/ Delegates repeal Membership Guidelines, pass LGBTQ-affirming resolution] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205201312/https://anabaptistworld.org/delegates-repeal-membership-guidelines-pass-lgbtq-affirming-resolution/ |date=5 December 2022 }}, anabaptistworld.org, USA, 29 May 2022</ref>