This week the United Methodist General
Conference defeated an attempt to weaken its stand against “the practice of
homosexuality”. Overseas
delegates, particularly from Africa, were important in defeating said Hamilton-Slaughter
motion, which would have replaced language clearly opposing homosexual practice
with:
Homosexuality continues to divide our society and the church.
All in the United Methodist Church affirm that homosexual persons are people of
sacred worth and all are welcome in our churches, but we disagree as a people
regarding whether homosexual practices is contrary to the will of God. . . .
And then more nice words,
including:
It is likely that this issue will continue to be a source of
conflict within the church. We have a choice: We can divide, or we can commit
to disagree with compassion, grace, and love, while continuing to seek to
understand the concerns of the other. Given these options, schism or respectful
co-existence, we choose the latter.
I note that paragraph because
the reaction of libchurchers to defeat revealed those words to be little more
than just that, words. They
marched into the conference proceedings and disrupted them with chant and song.
Disrupting a church’s meeting
like that is not “respectful co-existence”. It is insufferable self-righteousness and victim-playing
that respects neither the processes of church governance nor orthodox
Christians and their upholding of traditional morality. In other words, it is typical
libchurcher behavior. “Moral infants” banging “spoons on their high chairs” has got it about right.
It would greatly improve this
and future church synods and conventions of Methodists and of other
denominations if those engaging in such behavior were immediately stripped of
their badges and banned from such meetings for ten years . . . or at least sent to
stand in the corner.
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If they don't punish them, they will be back... in force.
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