Posted on 12/13/2021 12:55:58 PM PST by packrat35
An Idaho church has replaced a stained glass window of Robert E Lee, George Washington and Abe Lincoln with the country's first black Methodist bishop wearing an LGBTQ scarf.
The late bishop Leontine Kelly, who passed away at age 92 in 2012, had lived in Richmond, Virginia with her family where monuments of former Confederate leaders, such as Lee, had lined Monument Avenue.
The statue of Lee, a former Civil War general and slave owner, was later removed by the city on September 8.
The call to remove the statue had been recommended by Governor Ralph Northam in June 2020 as Lee was believed to have represented a time of racial injustice.
The stained glass window at the Cathedral of the Rockies First Methodist Church in Boise, Idaho, which featured Lee was taken down in August 2020.
The window, erected in 1960, featured Lee standing with Washington and Lincoln who were 'selected to show historic and contemporary leaders of our nation,' according to the Idaho Statesman.
Kelly now stands in place of these three men, while donning an LGBTQ scarf, and standing proud with her hands folded.
She had been elected as the first black Methodist bishop in a 1984 ceremony.
The portrayal of the former bishop was inspired by a photo taken of Kelly where she calmly stood in the midst of a 1985 protest against nuclear armaments.
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I’m not an anarchist, but I hope a few well-aimed rocks go through that window.
Boise.
Provided the stained glass that was removed is in good condition I am prepared to pay $100 for it.
Get a brick...
If a member contributed to the building of the church, they should get their piece of the church back—pews, lighting, whatever....
;-)
Barf - just barf.
This is the result of the Californication of Idaho. It will happen in other states too where Caltards are moving in large numbers.
The great apostasy ver 2.0.
Idaho is slowly getting Californicated.
This is Satanic.
Not all that sure what the Lee connection with Idaho is, but whatever. The jihad against history continues.
Doubt is what the members want. Don’t decisions in the Methodist church come from the top down?
We extend a special welcome to those who are single, married, divorced, LGBTQ+, straight, filthy rich, or dirt poor. We extend a special welcome to crying newborns, those who are skinny as a rail or could afford to lose a few pounds. You’re welcome here if you’re “just browsing,” just woke up or just got out of jail. We don’t care if you’re more Catholic than the Pope, more Methodist than Wesley, or haven’t been in church since little Joey’s baptism. We welcome soccer moms, Bronco dads, starving artists, tree-huggers, latte-sippers, vegetarians, junk-food eaters. We welcome those who are in recovery or still addicted. We welcome you if you’re having problems, if you’re down in the dumps, or in need of a prayer. Whether you had church shoved down your throat as a kid, or if you don’t like “organized religion”. We’ve been there too. We welcome those who are inked, pierced or both. We welcome tourists, seekers and doubters, bleeding hearts… and you! (Adapted from Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Community)
Many Methodist churches have lost their way.
I would have to leave this one.
About 30-50 attend my Methodist Church each Sunday.
In a house supposedly built to honor and worship God, windows depicting any human being outside of a Bible illustration (see the cathedrals in Europe for example) SHOULD NOT BE.
God has a plan for all of humanity. Putting this government or national symbols, or secular historical figures on any house of worship is a pretty nasty form of idolatry and will be exclusionary, simply because people have a difference of opinion about WHO gets praise. Watch — plenty of people will object to the PERSONS on the windows being replaced with another person, not the fact that any of the people depicted have nothing to do with God’s plan for humanity.
LOL! A “church”...yea, right...
They don’t deserve to have a stained glass window with Lee, Washington and Lincoln.
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