It’s not just the acceptance of homosexuality in the UMC. It’s the celebration of the acceptance of homosexuality in the UMC and the “good riddance” they give to the Methodists who have separated from the UMC.
I’ve never seen such celebration of sin in a “church.” If homosexuality is just fine with God, then so is womanizing, affairs, premarital relations, casual sex, pedophilia, etc.
Yes, I am equating homosexuality to all sexual sin. Yes, I am equating sexual sin to all other sin.
“...affairs, premarital relations, casual sex...”
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I think the Methodists already went down that road a long time ago. Late 1960’s.
Once you start down that road there is no coming back. You just keep going down, and down.
The affirmation that homosexuality is morally acceptable for an ordained elder in the church does in fact signal an openness to every conceivable sin as an appropriate life style for church leaders. These deluded libertarians have codified sin as loved by God.
Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam of the UMC said not many years ago, “Your God is my Satan.” As a leading progressive in the UMC he was admonishing an elderly church member that her conservative views were not acceptable. Her response might have been, “Bishop. I might say the same to you.”