Posted on 06/05/2022 3:53:02 PM PDT by T Ruth
Last year, the United Methodist Church accepted Isaac Simmons, who regularly preaches dressed as a drag queen under the name Ms. Penny Cost, as a candidate for ordination. Since that time, Simmons, who serves as an associate pastor at Hope United Methodist Church in Bloomington, Illinois, has challenged basic theological concepts, projecting a worldview where divinity rests not in God but in queerness.
In a church preparing to split over LGBTQ issues, the drag queen pastor, who embraces queer theology while barely attempting to plaster on the basic tenets of Christian theology, has become a lightning rod. Conservatives argue that Simmons’ role as a celebrated figure among progressive Methodists proves the church has become so radically liberal as to forswear Christ. Progressives promote Simmons and invite him to preach in drag as a way to challenge the conservative position on sexuality that the denomination officially still takes.
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Simmons has published a new video of himself performing slam poetry in what may be his most provocative repudiation of traditional Christianity and embrace of queer spirituality.
“God is nothing,” the self-described “dragavangelist” repeats throughout the poem, adding, “the Bible is nothing” and “religion is nothing.” In the end, he concludes God and the Bible are nothing “unless we wield it into something.”
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He speaks of God not as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but rather as the source of queerness, describing him as “nothing but a drag queen with a microphone of biblical f***ing proportions,” “nothing, but if she were, she would be ‘yes, queen’-ing her way down the runways of Paris and Montreal,” and “nothing, but if she were, she would be a seamstress of divide couture, weaving together string theory and self portraits to form the fiercest gowns of queer existence.”
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Demonination
He ain’t transgender. He’s a drag queen.
His only use of the word of G-d is to find out what G-d said not to do, so he can do it.
And you are a RINO.....it’s in your name.
The wrong that Calvin did is coming to a head.
All I can say is, don’t take usernames so seriously.
Right....
Several conservative churches ordain women. It is only a “death knell” to Baptists and Reformed people.
Whine about it all you like, but this is our own fault.
We didn’t bother actually watching what was going on in our church bodies and let it come to this.
A copy of this article should be sent to every member of a UMC church.
Same thing with many institutions that have fallen to the Left.
When people are given power based on sexual weirdness this is what you get... I assure the guilty white liberals who hired this man are pleased with the drama.
Churches and newspapers are dying for the same reasons...
Your comment is inappropriate, adds nothing; and in fact, it takes away.
Here's the really sad part of the article:
I'm glad they're leaving. I'm appalled it's onlly 3% of congregation members in the N. GA conference.Late Thursday afternoon, the member churches voted to ratify the decisions of 70 churches in North Georgia that will be leaving the UMC. (Mt. Bethel is not one of the 70, since its split from the UMC is being negotiated in court.) Conference spokesperson Sybil Davidson said the 70 churches alone make up approximately 9% of churches in the conference, and about 3% of members.
Ping!
Yes, it will; and yes, it will.
I believe God loves all people, including sinners; but hates the sins they commit, and chastizes them the way a loving parent chastizes a child who puts a hand on a stove burner. But if they remain unrepentant, he will not admit them to Eternal Life on Judgment Day.
Satan may think he has the Catholic Church, but he doesn’t.
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