Posted on 01/13/2016 4:09:14 AM PST by SJackson
The pension board of the United Methodist Church -- one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States, with more than seven million members -- has placed five Israeli banks on a list of companies that it will not invest in for human rights reasons, the board said in a statement on Tuesday.
It appeared to be the first time that a pension fund of a large American church had taken such a step regarding the Israeli banks, which help finance settlement construction in what most of the world considers illegally occupied Palestinian territories.
Wine being prepared for export at Shiloh Wineries, based in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh, this month.
Palestinian advocates, both in and outside the church, described the step as an important advance in the Boycott, Divest and Sanction campaign, or B.D.S., an international effort to pressure Israel economically over the Palestinian issue. Others within the church, however, called those claims misleading, noting that the church remains invested in other Israeli companies and that members had overwhelmingly opposed divestment resolutions.
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Yes, I agree. I was just commenting on lumping all United Methodists together. Despite common opinion, we have not (yet) permitted homosexual ordination, homosexual marriage, or the like and we consider it ‘incompatible with Christian teaching’.
We’re wrong on abortion, but we had trended in the right direction for about the last 2 decades. Still not out of the woods.
The BIG convention for the UMC is this May. It will make or break this church. It is both the best and the last chance for the liberals to win on their homosexual agenda. After this, the general conference will be seriously affected by the huge growth of the African churches who are almost uniformly conservative.
Maybe on paper, but not in reality. The local Methodist Church in my town had a lesbian pastor who brought her 'partner' with her from the east coast.
Yes, it is our teaching. No, there is no one in control. We don’t have an appointed leader in our denomination. A wayward pastor under a wayward bishop will get away with what the bishop wants them to get away with.
So, this would be actionable under any of the African bishops and many of the American bishops...but not as many as it should be.
Our US HIERARCHY is corrupt.
Like the Lutherans, there are several different branches of the Presbyterians. I don’t know to which D. Trump belongs.
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