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"How can you be a member of a religious organization and simultaneously act regularly and openly in outright defiance of its principles? No church worth the name would accept such a person."

I don't understand this at all. The Methodist Church is now telling people they can't be part of a congregation if they're sinners? Excuse me, but I'm a sinner, and I'm a member of the Methodist Church, too. My understanding is that we all "fall short".

I have absolutely no problem with the Church saying that homosexuals should not and can not serve in any official capacity...that should be a rule in any Christian Church.

But, to say that we're not going to minister to sinners...?

"I don't understand this at all. The Methodist Church is now telling people they can't be part of a congregation if they're sinners? Excuse me, but I'm a sinner, and I'm a member of the Methodist Church, too. My understanding is that we all "fall short"."

And these people call themselves Christians. The amount of intolerance on this site sometimes shocks me. Fortunately, this is not the practice of the Methodist Church but a single Methodist minister in VA who has been since been removed from his position (by a 581-20 vote of fellow VA ministers).