"All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the united States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."
Please discuss this "international law" of which you speak. What body or individual drafts, enacts, and proclaims it? Who is the sovereign whose law it is? Who is the sovereign who judges the law, and punishes violators, and by what right does that sovereign rule?
No, silly Jim, the UMC explains it right on their website. There’s no such thing as “national sovereignty”, what a silly, antiquated thought. It’s all about “binding arbitration”, dontcha know.
Us silly Christians have it all mixed up - UMC has it figured out - the Bible is about globalism.
Here’s what the UMC “Church” says about things:
http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/the-world-community
“Justice and Law
Persons and groups must feel secure in their life and right to live within a society if order is to be achieved and maintained by law. We denounce as immoral an ordering of life that perpetuates injustice and impedes the pursuit of peace. Peoples and nations feel secure in the world community when law, order, and human rights are respected and upheld.
Believing that international justice requires the participation of all peoples and nations, we endorse the United Nations, its related bodies, the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court as the best instruments now in existence to achieve a world of justice and law. We commend the efforts of all people in all countries who pursue world peace through law. We endorse international aid and cooperation on all matters of need and conflict. We urge acceptance for membership in the United Nations of all nations who wish such membership and who accept United Nations responsibility. We urge the United Nations to take a more aggressive role in the development of international arbitration of disputes and actual conflicts among nations by developing binding third-party arbitration. Bilateral or multilateral efforts outside of the United Nations should work in concert with, and not contrary to, its purposes. We reaffirm our historic concern for the world as our parish and seek for all persons and peoples full and equal membership in a truly world community.”