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comment by katakowsj
katakowsj  ·  2007 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Enticing Sin of Empathy: How Satan corrupts through compassion

Yeah. So true on twisted definitions of love. You know a boatload more about what works than any of the Christian fundamentals you describe.

It sucks how we human beings can allow our fear of the unknown, or unfamiliar rationalize our actions as we jack up the lives of folks that would otherwise be doing fine.

I’m a recovering Catholic myself. I’ve attended a local Methodist church with my wife and kids on occasion with good results. That is, until the Methodist Church leadership recently made it clear they had no interest in gay clergy members.

Our local church, although located in a fairly conservative area, does not want any part of this policy. The pastor was very clear with his disagreement of the policy, yet no action has been taken yet. Turns out the Methodist Church leadership somehow owns all of the deeds to all Methodist Churches, and therefore appears to hold the trump card in this game





OftenBen  ·  2004 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There is a schism brewing within the UMC directly because of the LGBT issue.

My congregation was kicked out of the church building we were renting because of a similar issue.

It stopped being a congregation shortly after that.