Posted on 10/30/2016 9:05:35 PM PDT by Morgana
Sadly, the United Methodist Church is one of a handful of Protestant denominations with clergy who strongly support abortion. LifeNews.com has frequently profiled UMC pastors and church leaders who advance abortion and the denomination has often pushed abortion as a member of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
Now, a pro-life writer has posted a collection of quotes from Methodist pastors pushing abortion. Here are a few selections form that list:
Pro-abortion Methodist pastor John M. Swomley:
It is not enough to say that abortion is not violent. Abortion is a positive decision and not a lesser evil. …[Abortion] is therefore profamily and pro-life. (1)
Rev. Phillip A. Wogamen, then affiliated with Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C.:
Real love for children means having the number of children that one can care for responsibly and lovingly…. Bringing every conceived child into existence is not “pro-life”: it is certainly not pro-love. (3)
Rev. Julia Mayo Quinlan, pastor of Parkway United Methodist Church in Pompano Beach, said the following at a service commemorating the 23rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade sponsored by the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice:
Pro-choice is about choosing life. And it is moral.
Rev. Karen Vannoy, then pastor of Travis Park United Methodist Church, on her support of abortion:
I am willing to take whatever heat would be generated by my support of what I think is right and in God’s will.
As LifeNews reported, in Ohio, United Methodist Church pastor, Reverend Laura Young, says she believes pro-life protesters in front of Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities have “misguided faith.” In fact, she thinks these clinics should be blessed, which is why she went out to an abortion facility called Preterm on October 8th in Cleveland. In 2014, Preterm was involved in the abortion-related death of Lakisha Wilson.
Young explained her acceptance of abortion like this: “Christianity, like most faiths, is founded on love. Watching protesters shouting judgment and hate based on what they call religion is horrible. Is that loving God? Is that loving your neighbor as yourself?”
The United Methodist Church’s abortion advocacy is one many reasons millions of Christians have left the denomination and sought home churches that better espouse Biblical concepts and values. As the remaining members age and millennials look for churches that more accurate reflect their pro-life Biblical beliefs, Methodist churches are closing across the country and the denomination is struggling to remain a viable entity within organized Christendom.
There is no logic around that can change the fact that abortion is just another example of the stronger party oppressing and killing the weak and the innocent.
Sick.
You captured my response perfectly.
Sometimes when I read stuff like this just want to barf all over the place.
Expect it from people who run the clinics but people who call themselves Christian and pastors? It’s a wonder my head does not explode.
I left the commie Methodist church over 40 years ago.
Praise the Lord.
“Expect it from people who run the clinics but people who call themselves Christian and pastors?”
Methodist haven’t been Christian in about 35 to 50 years.
They are completely apostate
I left after 9/11, when my pastor blamed the terrorist attacks on ‘World Hunger’. Not kidding.
My great great grandpa was a United Methodist deacon and church founder and CSA combat vet
Old Carr in Pineville Miss
He is buried there along with many of my descendents as may be I one day
He wouldn’t recognize it
http://www.pbase.com/randalldidit/carr_united_methodist_church
Same libs working on Southern baptist convention too and other denominations and even in Rome
A pestilence
They need extreme prejudice purging
Bookmarked
Come on, I went to my Grandparents Methodist church as a kid and it was not like this. Don’t know what it’s like now but can honestly say they did not do this crap.
Look at Methodist theology since about 1975. The individuals attending the church may have still been Christians but the church leadership was not. They began supporting abortion, the homosexual agenda, the seminaries stopped teach the Bible as authoritative and inerrant. The Methodist Church that G W Bush and Anne Richards went to in Austin had Buddhist monks come in and conduct the service once a month. The Methodist, at least the United Methodist are no longer a Christian church.
The same is true of Episcopalians and many Lutherans and Presbyterians.
Would think that logic would tell you that to build your church it’s best to be pro life. More babies more future members.
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Most women in the liberal old denominations are post-menopausal social workers in polyester pants and button up sweaters. They leave behind them a troubled only child in his 40’s.
“... and many Lutherans ...”
Let’s identify them correctly. LC-MS, WELS, ELS, and CLC Lutherans DO NOT - repeat, DO NOT - support abortion, the homosexual agenda or anything else that is contrary to the moral law, i.e., the 10 Commandments. They are Lutheran, and deeply Christian.
Only the ELCA supports these things; and they ceased to be Lutheran 30 or 40 years ago. What they are today is anyone’s guess, but followers of Christ they are not.
“... and many Lutherans ...”
Let’s identify them correctly. LC-MS, WELS, ELS, and CLC Lutherans DO NOT - repeat, DO NOT - support abortion, the homosexual agenda or anything else that is contrary to the moral law, i.e., the 10 Commandments. They are Lutheran, and deeply Christian.
Only the ELCA supports these things; and they ceased to be Lutheran 30 or 40 years ago. What they are today is anyone’s guess, but followers of Christ they are not.
The Methodists in your area may have acted a fool but not in my area.
The Episcopalians started early in my area, sometime in the 70’s, but they were the only ones.
http://goodnewsmag.org/2015/11/u-s-membership-decline-continues/
For decades the Council of Bishops of the UMC has commissioned a survey to determine the cause of dwindling membership. Time after time the report comes in that members leave the denomination searching for a Bible based church. With absolutely inerrant consistency these findings are dismissed by the Council.
I left the Presbyterian Church USA when I found out they give pastors & their families abortion coverage in their medical plan.
Methodist / ex-UMC / The Wesleys Are Spinning in Their Graves ping
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