.. . Rev. Dr. Joan VanDessel said. “I’m a part of the (LGBTQ) community too, . . ."
Oh, now I see, even more clearly. Miss(?) Joan is . . . a doctor? of Theology? or Ministries? or what? a lesbian (if not "married," then is she a practicing fornicator?) as an ordained Methodist minister? Probably an Elder, eh?
Oh, I wish I could take this as a true report back to my Dad's congregation, in 1948 when he accepted me and several other members of his Confirmation class, as a full member.
Had he seen then true look at what his Methodist Church was about to become, doubtless he would have left it straitway for a more faithful church and more fruitful ministry. And maybe I would not have progressively ruined my life before truly becoming born again at age 34.
But he did not, and apparently became more and more blind to its errors, the farther it went. At least he retired from active deployment, but only a few years before a woman was made the Bishop of the Conference.
NorthMountain, don't forget that I probably have forgotten more about the Methodist Church and parsonage life than you've ever experienced, and I'm saying that at an altitude of 83 years of observation. And I have the original 1886 and 1900 Methodist Disciplines for benchmarks.
The women have wrecked the Methodist Church, and the weak, effeminacy-tolerating men have let them do it. I clearly is a part of the apostasy declared in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 (AV):
"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; . . ."The watching world is no longer deceived about what entities are engaged in falling away.
So? You chose to sneer at the Catholic Church, which rightly refused Communion to this strange woman in desperate need of repentance. That was a stupid thing to do.