“I just can’t see the homosexuals providing the financial support that is needed to support all of the churches and other institutions of the denomination.”
In American church history, any number of denominations have split along liberal/conservative lines. The liberal faction usually dies out long before the initial schismatics are dead, and comes crawling back to the much stronger conservative faction.
I’m living thru the current Presbyterian (PC-USA) slow-motion schism over the same issue. Those who propose gay ordination (every year, even when they’ve never won a vote nation-wide) say that, “The PC-USA is declining, and we can’t afford to lose any members.” Fair enough, but I don’t see the Presbyterians losing members to the Episcopalians, or the UCC, etc. I definitely don’t see the Metropolitan Church growing. In other words, one more time when I end up using facts to debate liberals, and as Ann Coulter points out, it doesn’t seem to work with them.
>> In American church history, any number of denominations have split along liberal/conservative lines. The liberal faction usually dies out long before the initial schismatics are dead, and comes crawling back to the much stronger conservative faction. <<
I wish you were right, but I can’t think of one instance where that has happened.