It was. I will grieve for the rest of my life over what happened to our community. Our family life revolved around the church. We went twice on Sunday, every Wednesday night for dinner, and often there were events on Saturday. No smoking, no drinking, no dancing, no gambling, no movies on Sundays. Those were the rules. Children went to Vacation Bible School in the summer, and the adults never had to worry that they would be indoctrinated into homosexual cultism. By the time my son was 14, our pastor was wearing black leather, endorsing the sleazy films "American Beauty" or "The English Patient" as works of art, and showing "The Rock" and similar violent movies at Methodist Youth Fellowship. He was closeted, but several of the other pastors in my last ten years in the UMC were openly gay or lesbian, wore the rainbow stole, et cetera. I had to get out for my son's sake, not to mention my own.
It must be terrible to have a church you love become a moral danger to your children. I hope that mine will resist the drift. The church I attend is a Presbyterian Church in America which was a schism because of the Presbyterian USA drift to unbiblical leadership and teaching. I really respect the Christians that are staying in the mainline denominations and fighting to keep them Christ centered, but I came to Christ late in my life so I didn’t have an emotional stake in an existing Church. Free to choose, so to speak.