United Methodist Church Drops Pro-Choice Support

  • Thread starter Thread starter _Abyssinia
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
A

_Abyssinia

Guest
The United Methodist Church concluded their quadrennial general conference this past weekend in Portland, Oregon. At their meeting, the delegates overturned a 40-year policy which supported the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.
Click to expand...
The pro-choice resolution was adopted in 1976 and placed in the Book of Resolutions which the church called, “Responsible Parenting.”
Click to expand...
The resolution to continue support for the pro-choice doctrine was defeated in a 445 to 310 vote on Saturday. The Methodist Church also voted the denomination from a pro-choice interfaith group that it co-founded in 1973, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
Click to expand...
Read More: United Methodist Church Drops Pro-Choice Support | kfyo.com/united-methodist-church-drops-support-for-abortion/?trackback=tsmclip
 
This is very good. The United Methodist Church is returning to true Christian values.
 
boldlygo said:
Did she ever practice??..:confused:
Click to expand...
Wikipedia has the following:

“Rodham’s early political development was shaped most by her high school history teacher (like her father, a fervent anticommunist), who introduced her to Goldwater’s The Conscience of a Conservative, and by her Methodist youth minister (like her mother, concerned with issues of social justice), with whom she saw, and afterwards briefly met, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. at a 1962 speech in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall.”

So it looks like she was involved with a (probably liberal and “Social Gospel”) Methodist church, including having a good relationship with its youth minister, before marriage. Of course, that was a long, long time ago… 😦
 
Deo gratias! Opinions on this issue are most definitely starting to change.
 
I can’t understand why any Christian Church would support pro-choice – it’s the killing of babies – if they did that to animals the whole country would be “up in arms”!
 
peter26 said:
Deo gratias! Opinions on this issue are most definitely starting to change.
Click to expand...
If there are other Churches that support Roe v Wade, I hope they move in the same direction of rescinding their support for it.
 
Arizona_Mike said:
Good for them.

It will be interesting to see if Hillary, a methodist, repudiates her church’s position.
Click to expand...
“It’s important to note that the Church’s statements on social issues, such as abortion, represent the effort of the General Conference to speak to human issues in the contemporary world from a sound biblical and theological foundation. They are intended to be instructive and persuasive, but they are not church law and are not binding on members. Members will hold differing views on abortion. There is no requirement for members to agree with the Church’s view.”

umc.org/what-we-believe/what-is-the-united-methodist-position-on-abortion

So unless the above has changed, yes she can very much remain a practicing United Methodist.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top