Methodists ready pro-gay push

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Methodists ready pro-gay push

Hundreds of United Methodists are meeting in northern Ohio this week in an uphill bid to make their 12-million-member denomination more gay-friendly.

Activists are preparing for next year’s General Conference meeting in Tampa, Fla., where they plan to fight once again to change the church’s official position that homosexual activity is a sin.

Unlike other mainline Protestant denominations in the United States that have moved to allow openly gay clergy and bless same-sex unions, United Methodists prohibit sexually active gay clergy and blessing same-sex unions.
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By the end of the 21st century, the majority of Protestantism will be openly gay. Let us hear it for the Glorious Reformation that teaches you can ignore what the bible says about homosexuality. 👍
 
God works in mysterious ways. If the Methodist Church holds firm, those favoring the gays will move to another church comparable with that philosophy. If it folds, we might see a flock of former Methodists becoming Catholics.

I don’t know why the practice of homosexuality should get a pass. All of us have crosses to bare. Hetrosexuals must fight against the impulse to commit adultery. Some must fight drugs and alcohol and smoking. We all are imperfect and challenged by sin. God has rules.
 
While I am not leaving the Methodist Chuch to be Catholic solely due to this watering down of morals and values every time I read something like this it affirms that God is sending me in the right direction. I am not sure they will prevail this time though- there is actually a movement of conservative Methodists who are doing their best to hold strong. I was actually quite horrified a few months back to read the Methodist position on abortion but apparently it was much worse before the conservatives got some revisions into the language. 2012 should be interesting as that is the year the General Conference meets to vote on these issues. As a lifelong bible believing Methodist raised on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and for the sake of my brothers and sisters in Christ who still are members of the church I pray that the conservatives will hold strong and turn this tide but I fear they will not.

God Bless,

Val
 
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While I am not leaving the Methodist Chuch to be Catholic solely due to this watering down of morals and values every time I read something like this it affirms that God is sending me in the right direction. I am not sure they will prevail this time though- there is actually a movement of conservative Methodists who are doing their best to hold strong. I was actually quite horrified a few months back to read the Methodist position on abortion but apparently it was much worse before the conservatives got some revisions into the language. 2012 should be interesting as that is the year the General Conference meets to vote on these issues. As a lifelong bible believing Methodist raised on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and for the sake of my brothers and sisters in Christ who still are members of the church I pray that the conservatives will hold strong and turn this tide but I fear they will not.

God Bless,

Val
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Welcomehome. 👍
 
Didn’t it use to be about tolerance? Now it seems to have gone from that to be expected to accept the lifestyle completely, to endorse and even encourage and celebrate it. And if you don’t you become hateful and homophobic. Am I seeing all this wrong, because that’s how it seems to me and that is what bothers me. I have no problem with the “tolerance” meaning gay people should not be harrassed, hurt or even threatened for being gay. Nor should they be fired from their jobs or be denied basic rights just because they are gay. Now though I feel if I don’t endorse the lifestyle and agree with gay marriage, etc I am considered a horrible hateful homophobe. I do not think I am any of those, not at all. I know many gay people and feel no different about them because they are gay. However I know I could never “openly” not agree with their lifestyle.
 
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Didn’t it use to be about tolerance? Now it seems to have gone from that to be expected to accept the lifestyle completely, to endorse and even encourage and celebrate it. And if you don’t you become hateful and homophobic. Am I seeing all this wrong, because that’s how it seems to me and that is what bothers me. I have no problem with the “tolerance” meaning gay people should not be harrassed, hurt or even threatened for being gay. Nor should they be fired from their jobs or be denied basic rights just because they are gay. Now though I feel if I don’t endorse the lifestyle and agree with gay marriage, etc I am considered a horrible hateful homophobe. I do not think I am any of those, not at all. I know many gay people and feel no different about them because they are gay. However I know I could never “openly” not agree with their lifestyle.
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No, you are not seeing this wrong—you’re right on the money.

The ultimate goal of the Pink Gestapo is not “tolerance”, it’s a demand that society reform every aspect of our culture to place their specific lifestyle in an equal, if not superior, status to all others.
 
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