DELAWARE, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio Wesleyan University has requested that United Methodist Church officials delay a site visit scheduled for this fall. The site visits take place once every ten years to determine whether the school is “worthy” of its affiliation with the church.

Earlier this year, at a meeting of the General Conference of the Methodist Church, delegates voted to continue to forbid same-sex weddings and to prohibit the ordination of gays and lesbians as pastors.

Ohio Wesleyan University President Rock Jones says the vote of the General Conference was out of line with the university’s long-standing principles.

“Those restrictions are fundamentally at odds with the values of Ohio Wesleyan and with our commitment of full inclusion and diversity and to be a campus that welcomes members of the LGBT plus community into all aspects of life on campus,” Jones said.

“We have delayed that visit for a year pending what I believe is likely to be the formation of a new form of Methodism that is fully inclusive and with which Ohio Wesleyan would be comfortable.”

The university issued the following statement this week: