Key leaders within the United Methodist Church have announced an agreement outlining how Americas third-largest religious denomination will split over the issue of LGBTQ inclusion.

The UMCs traditionalist wing, which has steadfastly refused to ordain or preside over the marriages of LGBTQ parishioners, will split off and form a new denomination, according to a proposal published on Friday . According to the proposal, the conservatives would leave with $25 million and their local church properties.

The planned schism would allow the remaining churches to reconvene at a later date and potentially remove controversial language from the churchs rulebook that claims the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching. LGBTQ Methodists and their allies have long argued that this language is harmful .