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Absolutely.

Sprague is a heretic. He should be thrown out. Unfortunately, in its weird wisdom, our denomination never created an office or an official higher than a bishop. It only has a process whereby that bishop "might" be thrown out.

Here is an email I received on this and another issue just as bad.

I am the retired Methodist attorney that H........... refered to. My take on this mess is that the United Methodist Church is improperly organized and set-up, and as a result the Discipline, the Resolutions, and Social Principles are not followed as they should be, and are often totally ignored. As a further deficiency the tenets clearly set forth in the Bible are also not taken seriously as they DEFINITELY should. Each Bishop can, and does make his or her own interpretation of the church's laws and rules, and for some unexplained reason they seem to this entitles them to ignore the Holy Scriptures if they feel like it. I specifically refer to Leviticus 18: 4, 22-23.

The problem as I see it was when the UMC was organized they saw the need for an executive authority, but did not set one up because they feared that in doing so they would create a "pope". The incorrect assumption was that any executive authority would have to be a Bishop. As a result they instead created the Council of Bishops as the executive authority which, by any other name, is a committee. The old adage that an elephant designed by a committee, comes out a giraffe is very much applicable to the present situation of the UMC. Of course, the Chief Executive Authority doesn't have to be a Bishop, in fact, a lay person is preferable. The results of this deficient organization results in the type situation you are now trying to deal with. A good CEO would make sure that everybody is reading from the same page. One Bishop in Chicago has an entirely different beliefs than those of us who call ourselves Christian, yet he can't be removed as he should because of the Bishops trying to control everything. He is Joseph Sprague, and in my opinion is a disgrace to the UMC and the entire Christian Community. If you would like to check this out, check with Mark Tooley whom I have sent a copy of this e-mail.