Posted on 02/01/2016 10:45:06 AM PST by Gamecock
Should young children be indoctrinated in LGBTQ ideology in United Methodist Vacation Bible Schools and Sunday schools?
The answer is a resounding "YES" if the LBGTQ "reconciling" movement in my denomination gets its way.
This was the focus of a workshop at last Saturday's "Winter Warming" retreat for activist supporters of the extraordinarily well-funded Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN).
RMN is the main unofficial caucus group devoted to promoting the LGBTQ liberationist cause. It boasts of having over 32,000 "Reconciling United Methodists," but a spokeswoman at this event admitted that they count anyone who receives their emails or newsletters (some of whom, like me, do not support their agenda).
While "Winter Warming" was only a local event of RMN's Chicago-area chapter, it featured some nationally prominent liberal UMC figures. The keynote preacher was Bishop Minerva Carcaño of Los Angeles. She was introduced by Chicago Bishop Sally Dyck, and gave a shout-out to retired bishop Sharon Rader, who was apparently also present. Bishop Carcaño claimed, without elaborating, that the 15 bishops, including Rader, who publicly challenged the UMC's orthodox policies on sexuality at the 1996 General Conference, later "suffered a great deal."
In addition to the three bishops, the closing worship featured the Rev. Tracy Smith-Malone, an endorsed candidate for bishop, sitting prominently up front. There was also a time of "commissioning" her and other Northern Illinois General Conference delegates there to advance the RMN agenda. (As an elected delegate from another conference, I declined to participate.)
One of their big points was the moral imperative they saw to "drop the gender binary" from avoiding such language as "boys and girls" to having "all-gender restrooms" (they apparently didn’t see how this could possibly go wrong with immature, vulnerable little kids), lest one child feel undue pressure to conform to the gender binary.
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The Methodist Church is very liberal and has been for years.
LOL, ya can't make this stuff up.
You can’t expect anything else from a denomination that for the most part no longer even believes the first line of the bible .
(Revelation 3:1) And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
(Revelation 3:2) Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
(Revelation 3:3) Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
(Revelation 3:4) Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
(Revelation 3:5) He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
(Revelation 3:6) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Since scripture conforms to the "gender binary" exclusively it appears they've completely tossed out the bible.
Grooming and recruiting. It’s how the queers propagate.
Scripture does not conform. Scripture dictates. "Gender binary" is defined in Scripture as created by God. Other notions of "gender" are the product of Man's broken, sinful, corrupted nature.
Without a doubt. My wife’s “best friend” is a screaming liberal AND a pastor for a Methodist church, and one of the things she was going to concentrate on was more LGBTQXYZ awareness.
Just out of curiosity, are there any Fundamentalist Methodists left, or was George Beverly Shea the last one?
Either way you pronounce it, it’s funny.
So that’s what gender binary means? I started re-reading Genesis last night. The creation of Adam and Eve and God’s purpose for creating them. That’s gender binary. Smh.
(raises hand)
Why I and a lot of the GOP don't take the "evangelicals" seriously anymore, at least politically.
If evangelicals can't even defend their own churches, why should anybody take their advice on policy or campaign strategy?
Good point. An awkward word choice on my part but you understood what I meant. I probably should have used "dictates" rather than "conforms"
Yep. “Gender binary” is the quaint, silly, old fashioned, outmoded, regressive, bigoted notion that people are male or female.
Good grief! Never thought I’d see the day when the same sentence would contain both “VBS” and “LGBT”.
Maybe a Methodist VBS would have that; most of them have gone to the dark side.
I was incensed when our Baptist VBS had the kids doing hip-hop dancing on the stage (a SBC program). We quit attending the church. I guess that’s mild compared to LGBT.
Yes, probably. Methodists are Methodists, after all.
Methodists are “evangelicals”?
Certainly. We both understand that Genesis is abundantly clear on the subject.
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