The United Methodists are huge sponsors of the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights - which I think has now morphed into the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice . . . that sounds so much better than out-and-out infanticide, I guess.
If you REALLY wanna get sick, click on the link, "Prayerfully Pro-Choice: Worship Resources" - there may even be a Prayer of Blessing for Cranium-Crushing Forceps or a Fetus-Removal Vacuum System.
And the George Augustus Stallings schismatic Imani Temple used to be headquartered at the UMC offices in DC.
So much for reciprocal ecumenism with the Roman Catholic Church!
Of course our (RC) nitwits permitted the ordination of UMC pastors in - of all places - the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception back in 1981, on the same weekend that Catholics nationwide were being asked to sign petition sheets in favor of the Hatch Amendment! When the absurdity - not to say hypocrisy of this - was pointed out to the Archbishop of Washington, DC, his secretary, soon-to-be-Bishop of Charlotte John Donoghue sent the standard, condescending, "ecumenical sensitivity" form letter back to anyone who complained.
All of which is to say, it's amazing to find such a denomination not liberal enough for Granny!
This article is really ironic. I am fed up with the Methodist church because of its pro-abortion stance. And the very last straw came when they opposed having the President's library at S.M.U. Thanks to the intolerable liberalism of the church in which I was raised, I am now denominationally homeless.