[Redleg Duke]

If you look at all of the Christian Churches, each is under attack from the queer left. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has a queer movement trying to force the church to acknowledge homosexual unions and consider queerdom as mainstream. I understand that there is a strong movement afoot by those who reject homosexuality and other deviances to break away if the queer left get their way in the ELCA.

Once the queers cause a break, they are left with "a church of their own, complete with psuedo-legitimacy". Their goal is first to gain acceptance, cause a split, gain legitimacy and then supremacy. They are the enemy within and the new force of the liberal movement. It is so will all Christian Churches.

[Miss Marple]

I have been thinking about this issue this morning and I believe I see an underlying motive.

The gay movement in churches does, indeed force people out (along with other divisive liberal issues). I myself have left my life-long church, the Methodists.

I notice that the gays are not lobbying in the Southern Baptists, nor in the Church of Christ, nor in the Assemblies of God. Now, one would on its surface think that it is because those churches are less susceptible to the message of "inclusiveness." That may be true, but there is another underlying reason as well, I think.

The mainline Protestant denominations, as well as the Roman Catholics, own a great deal of real estate and have fairly large bank accounts. The real estate (in Manhattan and Boston and other large cities across this nation) is owned by the denomination, not the individual congregation. An entire Episcopal congregation who wishes to split from the church and go independent must LEAVE the building, abandoning it to the gay-friendly people. This holds true for the Methodists as well.

On the other hand, most Southern Baptist congregations own their property individually. They can withdraw without losing the building.

It seems to me that this is a concerted effort to not only shape public opinion but to control real estate and money. Money is used to sway political beliefs, push certain social issues, and shape public discourse.

It seems to me that there is a plan afoot to rob people who have donated their time and treasure (in some families' cases, for generations) to a congregation and church building, and secure the land and money for their own purposes.

In other words, this is about money as much as sex. Otherwise, why wouldn't these people simply start their OWN churches? They don't want to do that, because they want the land, the buildings, and the money. I think this needs to be looked at with more attention to the financial side.

Let us not forget that Satan comes as a thief in the night.