If the city/county/state had built this, the pier would be praised for maximizing the amount of space available for people to use it and enjoy the ocean view.
Never mind that the Methodist Church has been about as anti-Biblical in their gender-inclusion views as any denomination out there... I swear, people are just doing everything they can to _try_ and be offended at anything remotely religious... and this is about as remote as it gets.
It was a gift... accept it.
I surfed over to the Camp Meeting Association’s website. They seem to be evangelistic—like the Methodists who ran the camp meetings of yore—and not affiliated with the United Methodist Church.