My dad is a retired Methodist pastor. The very last year he went to the annual United Methodist Conference, they were pushing HARD to force the approval of LGBT inclusion in the church. In order to get their way, they fiddled with the schedule to prevent the African delegates from being able to attend, because they've historically voted conservatively. (Thank God for North Katanga....)
It just blows my mind on every level. They're happy to be manipulative racists so long as they get what they want. It flies in the face of everything they claim to support, on either side of the isle. They literally have no morals, yet somehow find themselves qualified to preach to the rest of us how to live.
The very idea of voting to determine whether something that has been a sin for four thousand years is still a sin after all, is itself an incredible act of blasphemy.
My grandfather (and his father!) were Methodist pastors. One of them was a bishop even.
Today, my local Methodist church has a “Queerly Beloved” flag and sign out all year long, along with BLM flags, and whatever the local secular leftist cause of the day is.
I bet the African delegates were mad about that. Really sad how so many churches have let that poison to enter. I go to a Lutheran church that is part of a conservative synod. If a church is pro gay or pro abortion then it’s time for me to leave
My dad is a retired Methodist pastor. The very last year he went to the annual United Methodist Conference, they were pushing HARD to force the approval of LGBT inclusion in the church. In order to get their way, they fiddled with the schedule to prevent the African delegates from being able to attend, because they've historically voted conservatively. (Thank God for North Katanga....)
It just blows my mind on every level. They're happy to be manipulative racists so long as they get what they want. It flies in the face of everything they claim to support, on either side of the isle. They literally have no morals, yet somehow find themselves qualified to preach to the rest of us how to live.
The very idea of voting to determine whether something that has been a sin for four thousand years is still a sin after all, is itself an incredible act of blasphemy.
Funny enough the African Bishops are some of the most conservative in my church as well.
If they haven't been excommunicated for naming the jew, are they really holding fast to tradition?
My grandfather (and his father!) were Methodist pastors. One of them was a bishop even.
Today, my local Methodist church has a “Queerly Beloved” flag and sign out all year long, along with BLM flags, and whatever the local secular leftist cause of the day is.
So that’s why I’m not a Methodist any more.
I bet the African delegates were mad about that. Really sad how so many churches have let that poison to enter. I go to a Lutheran church that is part of a conservative synod. If a church is pro gay or pro abortion then it’s time for me to leave
This shit is literally what the Inquisition is for. To prevent popular reform of the religious doctrine.
Heretics: "We have talked about it. It makes us feel good if Jesus was a gay, purple space alien. So we are going to do that now."
Inquisition: "Ahem."
They just don't want their tax-exempt status threatened. That's all.