Posted on 06/05/2022 3:53:02 PM PDT by T Ruth
Last year, the United Methodist Church accepted Isaac Simmons, who regularly preaches dressed as a drag queen under the name Ms. Penny Cost, as a candidate for ordination. Since that time, Simmons, who serves as an associate pastor at Hope United Methodist Church in Bloomington, Illinois, has challenged basic theological concepts, projecting a worldview where divinity rests not in God but in queerness.
In a church preparing to split over LGBTQ issues, the drag queen pastor, who embraces queer theology while barely attempting to plaster on the basic tenets of Christian theology, has become a lightning rod. Conservatives argue that Simmons’ role as a celebrated figure among progressive Methodists proves the church has become so radically liberal as to forswear Christ. Progressives promote Simmons and invite him to preach in drag as a way to challenge the conservative position on sexuality that the denomination officially still takes.
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Simmons has published a new video of himself performing slam poetry in what may be his most provocative repudiation of traditional Christianity and embrace of queer spirituality.
“God is nothing,” the self-described “dragavangelist” repeats throughout the poem, adding, “the Bible is nothing” and “religion is nothing.” In the end, he concludes God and the Bible are nothing “unless we wield it into something.”
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He speaks of God not as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but rather as the source of queerness, describing him as “nothing but a drag queen with a microphone of biblical f***ing proportions,” “nothing, but if she were, she would be ‘yes, queen’-ing her way down the runways of Paris and Montreal,” and “nothing, but if she were, she would be a seamstress of divide couture, weaving together string theory and self portraits to form the fiercest gowns of queer existence.”
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Rot in the church
God is not mocked, Ms. Penny.
OM goodness! My heart is hurting to much I just don’t know what to say. Come Lord Jesus! Please!
What a disgusting creature.
“… divinity rests not in God but in queerness…”
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You can NOT make this stuff up. The rot is deep.
The UMC has no principles. They have incessantly failed to discipline errant members. The new organization will be no better.
Why the f-— would anyone ordain this person?
Sorry. I’m angry.
The Church of Satan, Baal and Beelzebub welcome you and your family..
Anyone who remains in the denomination has gone after another gospel....which is to say a false gospel.
It NEEDED to split. Like Lot leaving Sodom and Gomorrah...no looking back. The righteous people have to get out.
“has become a lightning rod”
Let’s hope so.
“The new organization will be no better.”
That is an unsupported/unsupportable assertion!
Perhaps you would care to provide some reliable and verifiable information to back it up?
Yeah go ahead and allow these creeps to infiltrate the clergy, as if they’ve learned nothing from what happened to the Catholic Church.
You do not know that. I have heard, though, that some conservative Methodist churches have joined the Free Methodist Church, leaving the UMC altogether. Mainly ones in the South.
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
The dude is woke.
Satan’s got the Churches, all of them.
And that church went, “poof!” What were the names of those two towns God destroyed?
Don’t leave your 5 year olds alone with him.
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