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Mrs. Don-o, I should clarify my above remarks and point out, especially with respect to our dear fellow FReeper xzins, that not all UMC congregations have drunk the Kool-Aid. It is mainly the areas around large cities most affected. There are many parts of the country where a truer strain of Methodism is still carried forward. I always enjoy going to church with my relatives in the Carolinas and Georgia, for instance; and rarely feel assaulted by secularism as I do in the UMC in the Northern areas. It’s going to take a long time to clear out the seminary graduates from the 60s and 70s still running the bishoprics.

22 posted on 12/09/2012 9:59:28 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Government can't redistribute talent, willpower, or intelligence, except through dictatorship.)

I had thought there were probably liberal vs conservative factions. The Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights :o( used to have their headquarters inthe United Methodist Bldg in Washington, DC --- don't know if they still do ro not --- but I knew a couple of prolife Methodist gals who were mad as hell about that. It's always a struggle, wherever you go.

"Religious Coalition." Gah. See tagline.

32 posted on 12/09/2012 2:24:02 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("As it is written, the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you." Romans 2:24)