The churches leaving are conservative, and they are leaving over procedural and theological issues, Baillie said.
Perhaps the most divisive of these issues has been the biblical view of homosexuality.
At least one recently-ordained UMC pastor is a drag queen under the name “Penny Cost.”
Bishops appoint UMC pastors to churches without churches getting a vote. Any UMC congregation could get an open, active homosexual pastor if its bishop put the pastor under abeyance.
“You are assigned a pastor. It’s not just that this person is being ordained. He could be assigned to your church,” said Bailie.
The gay movement is attempting to hijack the church. They have misrepresented their goals and their negotiating points repeatedly, agreeing to conditions and later disavowing and ignoring their past agreements. It is textbook rules for radicals, simply seizing what does not belong to them, and pretending it is now theirs.
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It all comes down to what they want to be: LGBTQ Church or Heterosexual Church. My guess is LGBTQ MINORITY got organized and pushed an agenda on the Heterosexual Majority Church, it must not have been to their liking or traditions. Kind of what's going on in our national political system.
The church knows that it doesn't want to be LGBTetc. It's a small entrenched minority that is flaunting their disrespect of the laity and the council. Now that minority is trying to force a schism in their favor by sheer obnoxiousness when the bylaws are against them. It's like going into a room and farting so bad to make the true owners want to leave, even while the cops are on their way to kick the intruders out for trespassing.
Perhaps the most divisive of these issues has been the biblical view of homosexuality.
The gay movement is attempting to hijack the church. They have misrepresented their goals and their negotiating points repeatedly, agreeing to conditions and later disavowing and ignoring their past agreements. It is textbook rules for radicals, simply seizing what does not belong to them, and pretending it is now theirs.
The UMC is charging its member churches anywhere from $100,000 to $1,000,000 to leave. Who joins a group with that kind of thing in the contract?
I wonder why it took so long.
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It all comes down to what they want to be: LGBTQ Church or Heterosexual Church. My guess is LGBTQ MINORITY got organized and pushed an agenda on the Heterosexual Majority Church, it must not have been to their liking or traditions. Kind of what's going on in our national political system.
The church knows that it doesn't want to be LGBTetc. It's a small entrenched minority that is flaunting their disrespect of the laity and the council. Now that minority is trying to force a schism in their favor by sheer obnoxiousness when the bylaws are against them. It's like going into a room and farting so bad to make the true owners want to leave, even while the cops are on their way to kick the intruders out for trespassing.
This is what happens when the minority organizes and comes after the dispersed majority.