[ealgeone]

With all due respect, you cannot square away your being a pastor with the qualifications Paul has outlined for those called to being a pastor.

Whatever decisions the UMC has ruled on must be in alignment with Scripture and women pastors are not in alignment with Scripture.

[captaincaveman]

Good for the Methodists, as, at least 6 of them, realizes that the act of homosexuality doesn’t fit the pattern God gave to teach about the covenant relation between God and the Church - that intimate relationship ultimately produces the Kingdom.

The Kingdom was the ‘child’ born out of the ‘marriage’ between God (i.e. ‘the man’) and the Church (i.e. ‘the woman’).

You don’t get the Kingdom, with no God and 2 Churches, nor do you get the Kingdom, with 2 gods and no Church.