[aruanan]

For your commentary.

[OREALLY]

I feel ill !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WVNan]

Commentary? I must admit I'm speechless.

[Faith]

I am sick to my stomach. Can't even type.

[Tarheel]

You forgot the 'BARF' warning. This is very disturbing.

The Tarheel

[aruanan]

At at time when the UM church nationally is starting to go back in the direction of its Wesleyan roots (especially amongst the Hispanic UM churches), Sprague and buddies spring this.

Please ping others you think may be interested. I won't be responding for several hours due to work.

[TheBattman]

Amazing how far left the United Methodists have moved. I have been told (I am not old enough to remember) that Methodists use to be some of the most conservative (in our current definition of "conservative") people around. What has happened?

[RnMomof7]

Apostacy Bump

Wesley turns over in his grave at least hourly now..how sad

[chicagolady]

Ping!

[madprof98]

There's a companion thread today, and a busy one. It's about a guy who decided (at 23) to remain celibate until he married and has kept that promise for 10 years. You should hear the "conservatives" on FreeRepublic taking him to task for being (a) crazy, (b) immoral, or(c) secretly gay. For people in a post-Christian society, including professed conservatives, it seems unthinkable that any and every itch might not necessarily get scratched. It's not surprising contemporary Methodists share and even celebrate this line of thought.

[Petronski]

Anal sex is a gift from God?

[dts32041]

The UMC branch of the NCC strikes again, remember both hilterly and GWB belong to this cult.

[dighton]

........

[aimhigh]

we affirm that loving, monogamous, intimate relationships

Give them ten years, then polygamy will also be a gift of God.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

They omitted a few things: THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church affirms that human sexuality is a good gift of God and understands that homosexuality, heterosexuality, bi-sexuality, pedophilia, necrophilia, and bestiality all share that gift

[fightu4it]

I wish some oversight agency would look into the finances of the UMC.

I took look about a year ago and I have never seen so many "funds" in my life. Millions of dollars in every fund. The pension fund was 6 or 7 billion.

The few, and I mean few Ministers who have a true calling can barely keep the local church doors open while the idiots who pass resolutions like this one have access to all the money.

The natural reaction is one of: Well, we have had to home school our kids in order for them to get a proper education. Now it has come to the point where religeous instruction must also be taught in the home.

The homosexuals who have found a home in the churches of America must be evicted and never allowed wear the cloak of the church.

[curmudgeonII]

Still another example of what has happened to some elements of the once godly methodist church.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Armando Valladares, the Christian poet who served 22 years in Castro's gulag, testifies that Cuban officials used pro-Castro statements by NCC representatives to torment their prisoners. According to Valladares, being forced to listen to the sanctimonious lies emitted by Marxists in clerical collars "was worse for the Christian political prisoners than the beatings or the hunger."   http://www.geocities.com/nccwatch/

[jimtorr]

........homosexual orientation (no less or more than heterosexual orientation) can be compatible with Christian teaching.

I like this line. It CAN be compatible with Christian teaching. Well, I can only ask these people: is it or isn't it?

"Can be" ties right into situational ethics. I define situational ethics as dishonest and unethical.

[Old Professer]

Ticket sales must be off.

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The Bible says just the opposite. This is the same as saying sin is a gift from God. If someone is going to accept homosexuality as normal they have to do it without the Bible's approval. This is an absolutely unreal Christian conference addendum.