I never would have believed we would see the day, where major mainstream religious denominations would face schisms over homosexual marriage and homosexuality.
Yet here we are.
Perhaps there is a silver lining, in that, if denominations split, we people of faith can join with the “conservative” version of our chosen faith.
The Unite Methodist Church is itself a fusion of Evangelical United Brethren and the Methodist Episcopal Church.
It has not been a good marriage. Evangelicals have not always mixed well with the more formal descendants of the High Church in England, and many of the EUB felt pushed aside when the Methodists came storming in during 1968.
May the divorce be amicable. But the accusations that shall come flying back and forth may make that a distant dream.
I thought this many times as we watched the Episcopal Church and much of the C of E/worldwide Anglican church fall. "What? Over anal sex?!?" But it is ...