Posted on 10/15/2021 7:09:27 AM PDT by Morgana
United Methodist Women are “praying” that Texas and other states will allow mothers to abort their unborn babies and stop trying to ban abortions.
An organization of the United Methodist Church, the United Methodist Women recently issued a statement criticizing the Texas heartbeat law and defending abortions.
State pro-life leaders said the law, which prohibits abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, has saved about 3,000 babies’ lives since it went into effect Sept. 1.
But the supposedly Christian women’s organization portrayed the law as oppressive, arguing that “women and families need access to the full range of reproductive health care, with the guidance the church provides.”
“We pray that legislators in states across the country will make a different choice and allow women to discuss health care needs with their loved ones and health care providers,” the United Methodist Women said.
However, the organization did not mention what that “choice” is: killing an unborn baby in an abortion. Abortions do not help women, and they are not health care. Aborting an unborn baby for basically any reason, as abortion activists want, is not a “human right.”
Killing an unborn baby contradicts Christianity, too, though some Methodist leaders try to claim otherwise.
Baptist News Global reports Stephanie Arnold and Katie Gilbert, pastors at First United Methodist Church of Birmingham, Alabama, recently created a video on TikTok criticizing Texas for protecting unborn babies from violent abortion deaths.
“As people of faith, we believe in reproductive rights,” they said in the video. “We won’t take this anymore.”
Dressed in costumes from the dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Arnold and Gilbert described the pro-life law as “unjust” and “patriarchal.” They said it strips “women of their agency and rights,” and “women are people, too.”
But Christianity teaches that unborn babies also are people, something the United Methodist leaders neglected to mention. The Bible recognizes unborn babies as valuable human beings in multiple passages, and condemns the shedding of innocent blood and the harming of children.
True Christianity rejects violence and raises up the most vulnerable. It defends the defenseless and offers compassion to the suffering. This is what pro-life advocates, secular and religious, do every day for mothers and babies across the world. They offer struggling families true blessings by reassuring them that every life is valuable.
Yet, in the name of religion, some Christian leaders are perverting the truth and leading people astray. In doing so, they are further jeopardizing the futures of countless children in society.
The Methodist Church is splitting right now. It will take a few years, because they have to sort out who gets what and COVID delayed it a year. But it is going to happen. The Methodist Church I go to is more conservative than my step mother's Baptist Church.
The idea is that Jesus has compassion for women with brats that are crimping their style.
Thanks to the times we now live in, prayers to Satan are now local calls. Thankfully God isn’t going to let it last much longer.
For all of the criticism Texas gets from the left over this law I hope one outcome is that people who want to murder their own children move out of Texas to places which are more moral. /s
What the hell has happened to Churches today?
Baby murdering is ok?
SICK.
Abortion is brutal and barbaric by any standards. I wonder if they support killing the baby once it is full term born and viable.
Yes. And we’re all going to join the (traditional, Wesleyan, Christian) Global Methodist Church as soon as General Conference adopts the Plan of Separation. Maybe before, if they delay GC for a third time.
I think that we need good Methodists to condemn bad Methodists. Unfortunately, good Christians are afraid to be critical of other so called Christians.
They are praying to Satan.
They are not Christ followers.
Why do these people never consider adoption?
Because it’s inconvenient to carry the baby to term.
That’s how low abortion lovers are and it’s really what abortion is about, lazy, irresponsible women.
No denigration to women in general intended.
My mother-in-law is soinning in her grave.
Those Methodians are gonna burn.
WE LOVE DEAD BABIES!! WE NEED MORE DEAD BABIES!
Just who do they pray to?
This is a big topic, but your grandmother was only a lay member of it with her own view of religion. The UMC has been moving further leftist for more than a hundred years, because of the general seminary "social gospel" training of its ministers. Your grandmom doubtless had no idea of what the most influential clerics had in mind, and with successive generations of pliable members where the organization was going to wind up.
But as a Methodist preacher's kid, I sensed it even in my youth, especially when the women's society changed its name; when the leaders of it became more assertive, and their dominance became more and more pronounced. Was your grandmother a part of this overall effort on the part of Progressives?
Do not forget that Hillary Rodham Clinton's progressevism originated under the grooming of the liberal clergy of her Methodist Church.
The UMC has been openly "pro-choice" for more than forty years. The Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision played a key role in the acceptance of abortion by some religious organizations like the UMC. So I'm not so sure that your assumption is correct. The UMC's current position didn't just suddenly happen.
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