03 March 2019, 06:40 PM
wtgLocal reaction to recent UMC vote
The Methodist church in my neighborhood has *always* displayed a rainbow flag hanging prominently on the outside of the building over the entrance.
This week, they added some more to the lawn out front. A bit hard to see, but there are several large flags and a whole host of little ones:
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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Bazootiehead-in-training
03 March 2019, 07:35 PM
CHASWas raised in the UMC.
Years ago I told mom that I had not left the UMC. It rejected me.
Half the UMC was anti-gay then. Had no intention of attending half a church.
Not a church goer.
I go to AA meetings in the local Lutheran church. A sign in the foyer states they are accepting.