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Church Won’t Do Weddings For Straight Couples Until Same-Sex Marriage Is Legal
http://charlotte.cbslocal.com ^ | 03/18/2013 | n/a

Posted on 03/18/2013 7:04:01 PM PDT by massmike

In a statement posted on the front page of their website, officials at the Green Street United Methodist Church said that they ask other churches to join in the movement to “refuse to sign any State marriage licenses until this right is granted to same- sex couples.”

In the full version of their statement - publicly posted on their website – the church asks that services such as premarital counseling be offered to couples of all orientations, in addition to other couple-specific services.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; liberalagenda; religiousleft; umc
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To: massmike

It looks like the homos have started their own “churches”.


21 posted on 03/18/2013 7:15:55 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Whatever happened to the land of the free, home of the brave?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

yea, shocked. Not.


22 posted on 03/18/2013 7:16:51 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Can you say “Unitarian?” Sure.


23 posted on 03/18/2013 7:18:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: massmike
From their worship web page

The experience in worship is a blend of traditional Methodist liturgy, free-church African American influence, Hispanic culture, social gospel, all stuck together with a jazz-fused gravy.

I'm not sure what this is supposed to be, but certainly has nothing to do with worshiping God.

24 posted on 03/18/2013 7:18:38 PM PDT by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

Perhaps they should have hetrosexual unions


25 posted on 03/18/2013 7:19:14 PM PDT by RightLady
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To: texican01

>>I belong to a Bible believing / bible teaching UMC congregation.

Me too. These urban leftist congregations are the exception. The UMC beat the gay agenda last summer so we have 3 1/2 more years before we have to it again. If they win, the denomination will split.


26 posted on 03/18/2013 7:19:19 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: massmike; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
"After the service, please be sure to visit our fabulous bathhouse!"
27 posted on 03/18/2013 7:19:55 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: massmike

Fine with me, straight couples should happily give their money to another church. Their loss.


28 posted on 03/18/2013 7:22:07 PM PDT by BillyBoy ( Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: Gamecock

Their minds are so open their brains have fallen out.


29 posted on 03/18/2013 7:25:38 PM PDT by woofer2425 (Obama inhales immensely!)
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To: massmike

From their website:


Green Street UMC is presently the only Reconciling Congregation in the Western North Carolina Conference. With a growing number of LGBTQ members, Green Street seeks to be a public witness to its community, Conference and denomination.

They are the only one in the conference and it has chosen to be the gay-magnet for Winston-Salem. Eventually, their pastor will get brave and come out and then the bishop can remove him.


30 posted on 03/18/2013 7:25:43 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: ecomcon

Or the pelosi/kennedy/biden christianity.

I think it’s interesting, let ‘em have their own club and watch it wither and die.


31 posted on 03/18/2013 7:25:58 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 (Fluck this adminstration of misfits.)
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To: BillyBoy

Exactly. I’m guessing the congregation for this “church” probably doesn’t have that many natural marriage weddings anyway.


32 posted on 03/18/2013 7:26:37 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: massmike
Great!
At least they unwittingly will support “marriages”.

Because I know several elderly women who could “marry” me, and we both could benefit from my being her legally dependendent spouse!

How are you going to prove every same sex marriage is a “homo-sexual orientation” situation?

What, are we going to have to swear we are sexually deviant to attain our rights to marry?
I have 7 children, she has none, we all get covered under her Medicare and the SSAN dependent care coverage kicks in at about $800.00 a month each when she dies...

Just think of all the new wealth building possibilities!

No, I am not being sarcastic. I am telling you what will happen.

33 posted on 03/18/2013 7:28:36 PM PDT by sarasmom (The obvious takes longer to discover for the obtuse.)
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To: massmike

John Wesley would have run these creeps out of town by now and they’d no longer be members of the Methodist Church if he were alive today.


34 posted on 03/18/2013 7:30:59 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: sarasmom

God will not be mocked.

Mankind will, but not God.


35 posted on 03/18/2013 7:31:18 PM PDT by sarasmom (The obvious takes longer to discover for the obtuse.)
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To: massmike

I am UMC and will stand and continue to fight, its my Church home and these fools are the outsiders, trying to rob and destroy a great tradition, as they are in other faiths...


36 posted on 03/18/2013 7:32:56 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: massmike
When “so-called” churches perform gay weddings, they are no longer a church, but a temple of Satan.
37 posted on 03/18/2013 7:35:55 PM PDT by mtg
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To: GeronL
Is it a “church” or a club?

It's a club. From their website:

Today, Green Street Church is alive and thriving, with 300+ members and approximately 160 people in worship each Sunday! The congregation reflects the make-up of the West Salem community– white, African-American, and Hispanic; the affluent, the middle class, and the poor–and also includes many from other neighborhoods who seek a diverse congregation.

160 people in church on Sunday? Where I come from that's either a new church or a dying church.

38 posted on 03/18/2013 7:37:05 PM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: sarasmom

“No, I am not being sarcastic. I am telling you what will happen.”

Indeed. And our society will deserve the bankruptcy that results from scenarios like the one you described.


39 posted on 03/18/2013 7:37:18 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: bigheadfred

lol.

Gotta find out what the FDA thinks of harvesting my fat white...er... plump sweet posterior as a marshamallow substitute!!

/sarc


40 posted on 03/18/2013 7:39:45 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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