Some Leftist pastors? Like the ones who put up the billboards all over the place just a few years back - that were put up, not by a single church, but by the UMC as a denomination? After those signs finally came down, the "open minds, open hearts" campaign started - which (at least in the radio spots I heard) included giving equal heed to those who essentially worship "mother earth" and would prefer to think of church as getting together to discuss the environment, or a myriad of other secular and even unholy pursuits in the name of "church".
You saw a sign and read into it what you wanted to see. I read the parable of the wheat and the weeds and know what the “open doors” campaign really meant.
I admit that there is a huge leftist influence in the UMC leadership. They are out of touch with the local church congregations, who tend to be conservative. But they also inject the radical thought needed to keep us from closing our doors on the world and hiding “our” God from it because we’ve decided that the heathens outside aren’t worthy.