Sounds very much like the internecine warfare in the episcopal church, where millions have been wasted on legal bills trying to keep the faithful churches in the sinking ship of TEC. Hint: It’s all about money.
"The church also urges congregations to advocate for laws that prevent or reduce gun violence, such as:
Universal background checks on all gun purchases
Ensuring all guns are sold through licensed gun retailers
Prohibiting gun purchases for those under restraining order due to threat of violence and those with serious mental illness who pose a danger to themselves and their communities
Ensuring greater access to services for those with mental illness
Establishing a minimum age of 21 years for a gun purchase or possession
Banning large capacity ammunition magazines and weapons
Promoting new technologies to aid law-enforcement agencies to trace crime guns and promote public safety"
This is in part a lie:
“congregations from leaving amid a denominational schism over homosexuality”
No, it is not about “homosexuality”.
This, form the same report, is the more truthful statement:
“The disaffiliations come in large part amid the denomination’s ongoing debate on whether to allow the blessing of same-sex unions and the ordination of people in same-sex romantic relationships.”
From the Methodist traditionalist perspective, to say the issue was about “homosexuality” one would think the congregations were going to go into the lives of all congregants and chase “gays” as well as adulterers and other moral sinners out their doors. Which no one thinks is the case. It is not about whether the sinner sits in church (we are all sinners and fall short of God’s commandments). It is about what role(s) in the church do true believers give to those admitting to living in sin with no repentence or change to be expected for it.
The hate that is spread about traditionalist (biblical) Christians is that they most of all understand that God does not “hate” the sinner (and neither does the true Christian) but does hate the sin. What God “feels” towards the sinner is love, compassion and hope for the sinner’s redemption from sin. It is the anti-Christians that are full of hate.
Even fag churches disguised as Christians can’t force their sodomy on me
They’re no better than corrupt libtards
They will find in court that the Methodist church owns the land and buildings. They have their walking shoes
This is a problem in other states too.
hmmm... so if you change a religion, change the rules to leave so that you can still call it THAT religion and not have to start your own stuff.
and call them bigots for leaving. and hate them for trying to leave.
One brother of mine and his wife disaffiliated in SE Texas last year.
My other brother / wife are voting to disaffiliate in a couple of weeks in north Louisiana.
They both clearly state it is lack of any interest in following the Book of Discipline by the leadership hierarchy.
Go woke, go broke.
If Satan were to arrive on the scene and promise to fund the pensions of liberal Methodist pastors, they would give him their fealty.
Homosexuals and the champions fighting for them?
Rather tares demanding they get their way rather than leave to play church elsewhere.