A man mocking those who want to save unborn human lives.
How mature.
He is no Christian.
The Wesley brothers are grieved in the heavenlies.
Freegards
LEX
Another leftist Saul Alinsky fan:
#5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
Saves you having to actually make the intellectual effort to argue a point. Also helpful when you are wrong.
He needs more march and less sandwiches.
A church “leader”? Obviously a Satanic church, when it comes down to it.
Do the United Methodists realize they have someone on their payroll who mocks sincere Christians who volunteer to march to protect the lives of innocent unborn children?
“The floor of hell is paved with the sculls of bishops.”
It’s potentially more damning when combined with his twitter post: “I was inspired by the march for life to March [sic] for what I believe in” admitting his mercenary motivations publicly, perhaps extending to why he keeps his job despite clearly not believing in it. Methodists, clean up your yard.
Thank God I am no longer a Methodist, and will never be one again as long as it is run by demonic fools.
How awful. What a thing to do, say, or think. Poor babies.
I’d be bothered about this if I thought the United Methodists were a Christian faith.
United Methodists. . . your tithes and offerings are supporting this maniac. We had an area country church that got wise to what much of their tithes and offerings were going toward after sending their required amount to UMC “headquarters”. . .had to actually “buy back their own church” to sever ties with the United Methodist Church. Most of the congregation didn’t realize they didn’t “own their own church”. The powers that be of the UMC organization said they would rather see it turned into a “coon hunters’” barn than another church. The members didn’t have the funds to keep it afloat and they joined other area churches.
My roots are Methodist, but the family was Lutheran when they migrated in 1749. When my direct ancestor came to the Georgia coast in 1798 Lutheran churches were scarce there.
My great grandfather's name is highlighted.
He rode the circuit on horseback as well as his service in Brunswick, all over S.E. Georgia and N.E. Florida. A little church he preached in here in St. Augustine is long gone, but the parsonage was only torn down recently.
The “mainline” Protestant denominations are a waste of time. All corrupted and controlled by Satan.
At the rate they are going. the Mrthodists are following the Episcopalians into the secular swamp.
The “Director of Civil and Human Rights” for the United Methodist Church, Bill Mefford, posted a picture to Twitter yesterday mocking the pro-life marchers. Mefford, who works for the church’s lobby arm, the General Board of Church and Society, ridiculed the marchers by posting a picture of himself standing before them with a sign saying “I march for sandwiches.”
Here’s a thought. A great proportion of the pro-life marchers are young people. They are volunteers, unpaid and untrained. Mefford, on the other hand, is a grown man, one whose actual job is to represent Christians in the public square. How is it, then, that if we compare Mefford and the young marchers, the adolescents are the ones who come out looking like adults?
Why isn’t Mefford marching for the unborn if he stands for human rights? If he doesn’t think those rights extend to all humans, why doesn’t he request a change in his job title? Something like “Director of Civil and of Select Human Rights” is concise and has a satisfying ring of exclusivity. It would almost sound like a promotion.
I am not sure what the sign is supposed to mean, but Mefford’s blithe comparison of the moral weight of fetuses and sandwiches reflects the abortion lobby’s deep unwillingness to face facts. Time and again, they tell us not to take any of this too seriously (What about pocketbook issues?) to direct our gaze elsewhere (It’s about a woman’s right to choose) above all, to avoid considering the life that is lost. It claims the mantle of sensitivity, but the pro-choice viewpoint still leans heavily on human callousness.
As for Mefford, I cannot see how he has any business representing either human rights or a Christian church unless his intent is to drag both into disrepute. People will call for him to be reprimanded. I wonder if it not likelier that he will be commended.
Update: Mefford apologizes. Some lingering questions:
Apologies cannot overcome the underling disagreement: What is human life, what do we owe it? I have a fair bit of hope that one day the United Methodist Church will overcome its moral aphasia on the issue of life. I invite Bill Mefford to help those working to hasten it.
My second observation is that the debate on abortion is about a civil and human rights issue, and a Christian clergyman should have a more cogent and helpful response than “Trololo”.