Methodists Vote Overwhelmingly Against Call to Split the Church

Methodists Vote Overwhelmingly Against Call to Split the Church
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

Published: May 8, 2004

PITTSBURGH, May 7 — One day after United Methodist conservatives stunned many church members at the denomination's convention here by proposing a split because of disagreements over homosexuality, delegates voted overwhelmingly Friday to remain unified.

The vote, on the closing day of the church's quadrennial General Conference, was primarily a symbolic measure meant to signal anguish at the conservatives' initiative. Delegates, many teary-eyed, linked hands in long chains across the convention center's bleachers and sang a hymn just before the vote on unity passed, 869 to 41.

But the tally does not preclude the conservatives' carrying their proposal to members and congregations around the country, a step that some of their leaders said they intended to take. They say the church is so deeply divided over homosexuality that the "covenant" that holds it together has already been broken.

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many churches becoming more and more divided on a lot of major issues. Locally, some of the churches are divided on condoning the use of "God" sanctioning this war. Condoning violence has never been something the churches have ever been hip on. Bush has not only managed to segregate us from world , he has disrupted our country, divided the citizens and now he threats to divided to churches. Not bad for less than 4 years.

This is an attack by the radical right wing political action conspiracy group, "Institute for Religion and Democracy", funded by Richard Mellon Scaife, among others.

These operatives are not Methodists but are paid political espionage agents who have infiltrated the church, and have attempted to take over the General Conference, the quadrennial national legislative session of the United Methodist Church. These anti-Christian extremists are working to split the national church and take over billions of dollars of church assets to fund their cultural warfare. They push a demagogic agenda of homosexual hate and anti-choice wedge issues to fire up the sheeple of the church, demonize liberal theology and destroy the church infrastructure.

The IRD is simultaneously attacking the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches, as well

Not unlike what has happened to the country at large.

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