Hobbit
Senior Member
Well, I missed a large portion of the stuff that I could have joined in, but I'll take a swing.
The outrage is from the members of the Methodist Church. What some of you don't understand is that the Methodist Church is a singular organization, not a random label applied to hundreds of unrelated churches. These churches are all run by a central office that handles much of the macro-resource management and personell. This organization also sets doctrine and universal church regulations.
Now, that having been said, a Methodist church ordaining a gay minister would be like a chapter of the NAACP hiring a KKK member as one of their chapter presidents. Yeah, people could just stop attending that chapter, but it would outrage all members of the NAACP that somebody who directly opposes one of their core values is in charge of one of their chapters. In the case of the Methodist Church, an individual church would have to cut itself off and declare itself non-denominational to avoid an outcry. But they're crusaders intent on forcing their enlightenment on the rest of us, so they're trying to get the national council to accept it, instead.
As far as calling chruch a "feel-good' get together where people dress up and eat food is like calling a football game a chance to get together and yell a lot while wearing the same color clothes. You missed the point entirely.
The outrage is from the members of the Methodist Church. What some of you don't understand is that the Methodist Church is a singular organization, not a random label applied to hundreds of unrelated churches. These churches are all run by a central office that handles much of the macro-resource management and personell. This organization also sets doctrine and universal church regulations.
Now, that having been said, a Methodist church ordaining a gay minister would be like a chapter of the NAACP hiring a KKK member as one of their chapter presidents. Yeah, people could just stop attending that chapter, but it would outrage all members of the NAACP that somebody who directly opposes one of their core values is in charge of one of their chapters. In the case of the Methodist Church, an individual church would have to cut itself off and declare itself non-denominational to avoid an outcry. But they're crusaders intent on forcing their enlightenment on the rest of us, so they're trying to get the national council to accept it, instead.
As far as calling chruch a "feel-good' get together where people dress up and eat food is like calling a football game a chance to get together and yell a lot while wearing the same color clothes. You missed the point entirely.