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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AMEN!!!
Pillars of salt.
Is there no Phineas in the UMC?
You hardly see this $hit in other countries of the world. The USA is the epicenter of degeneracy, decadence, hedonism, pedophilia, etc. It started with Obama pushing homosexual marriage. Obama has destroyed black masculinity, the black family, and black righteousness. When Russia drops those nukes, it will be to punish Sodom and Gomorra.
I was bashing methodists, not catholics. You’ve got some serious hysteria going on, and I mean that in the old sense.
Is Jesus the Son of God or a non binary choose your pronoun offspring?
You tell me. Will the new Global Methodist Church still allow,the ordination of women? That is a poison pill that will kill the GMC just as quickly.
It should be that the righteous people get to stay and the perverse crowd is invited to leave and start their own whatever.
The Free Methodist Church still ordains women. That is a death knell for any denomination.
House Rino, huh.....hmmmmm
It’s not going to get very with that kind of attitude...
You sure are Character
Even satan would be embarrassed.
No point in pretending that UMC is a “Christian” church, or that there are any Christians in it.
When is God going to send pillars of fire and turn people into salt? It is long past due.
The Divided Methodist Church...
Methodians are gonna burn for this.
God will not be mocked.
His patchince is astounding, however.. as in the days of Noha.
There are Bishops in the Methodist church who do not believe in the Divinity of Christ or that the Bible is the Word of God. So what do you expect?
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