• Cylusthevirus@kbin.social
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    Probably they’re more like Quakers, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, United Church of Christ, or United Methodists. You know, the denominations with openly gay clergy who see their role as advancing the cause of social justice and helping the poor and disenfranchised in their communities.

    Giving people shit for a label is bigoted as fuck. Also, thanks for making a dad joke thread about your unresolved religious trauma.

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      United Methodist is a tricky example to use. I know because I was one of their clergy at one point.

      Officially they still ban gay clergy, even after the recent schism where the most-bigoted group left and formed the “Global Methodist Church.”

      American United Methodists (especially the clergy) tend to be fairly progressive, but the African and Asian branches of the church are massive and extremely conservative. They’ve managed to keep the church from being able to change its official stance on homosexuality, which is that it’s “incompatible with Christian teaching.”

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      United Methodists are no longer cool. They voted against gay marriage. And yes, to be fair, a good number of local congregations were pissed

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        That seems to be more of a kick-the-can vote to allow the more conservative churches time to leave.

        More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination

        With these departures, progressives are expected to propose changing church law at the next General Conference in 2024 to allow for same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBTQ people.

        https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2023-07-06/one-in-five-united-methodist-congregations-in-the-us-have-left-the-denomination-over-lgbtq-conflicts

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          That seems to be more of a kick-the-can vote to allow the more conservative churches time to leave.

          “We only voted against human rights so the people who are against those human rights can leave with all their money and property intact, we promise!”

          Man, you’re making these “progressive” churches sound wonderful!

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            Compromises are useful when you want something. When your side is about to win you don’t blow up the organization unless you have a mental problem.

            Also, from what I can tell the gay bishops voted for the compromise. If they thought it was the right way to handle it, I am not going to shame them for it.

            We will see if they make good on it next year.

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              Compromises are useful when you want something. When your side is about to win you don’t blow up the organization unless you have a mental problem.

              Exactly. Like when the north was about to win the civil war, Lincoln allowed some slavery to be legal.

              Or when the allies were on the brink of victory, they went and allowed some concentraition camps to open again.

              Also, folding and voting against human rights to keep your hand on some property doesn’t sound like winning to me.

              Maybe you meant the Charlie Sheen kind of “winning”?

              Also, from what I can tell the gay bishops voted for the compromise. If they thought it was the right way to handle it, I am not going to shame them for it.

              I will! Fuck them, it was a shit decision, good job appeasing the regressives, well done guys.

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                The examples listed are examples of violent victories not political ones. Even then, they imply backtracking instead of maintaining the status quo until victory.

                This was not a change in policy, it maintained the existing one, so that they could finalize their “divorce” amicably. There is a ton of properties as well as pensions involved. Properties that the UMC technically owns but was paid for by local congregations.

                It might be worth noting that those gay bishops that I mentioned aren’t actually allowed under current church rules. If they forced the issue and the conservative churches brought them to court instead, there is no telling what the courts would decide. Making deals was likely the smart choice, even if it meant waiting a bit until they start offering gay marriages to their parishioners.

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                  Violent victories over political ideology. If you want to be an apologist for evil don’t be surprised when we think you’re evil.

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                    Is your reading comprehension so low that you do not realize that I am “apologizing” for gay people who are supporting gay rights?

                    It makes it sound like you think gay people are evil.

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          Not that I give a fuck whether the UMC survives, but you are correct. The bigots are leaving the denomination and many/most that left joined the Global Methodist Church.

          The only reason that the UMC wasn’t gay as fuck years ago is because the denomination is global and the African churches are bigoted against LGBTQ+. Their votes plus a fifth of USA congregations was enough to guarantee a schism. They’re just being strategic about the breakup because of how property is owned in the denomination.

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        True, sadly. Though there’s been a lot of local defiance of that and in 2024 they’re expected to vote on it again.

        The local UM congregation in my city has a gay pastor and giant banners up detailing that they are open and affirming. There’s a whoooole splinter going on right now.

        Some of the conservative nutjobs are breaking off too, but a lot of that is in the US South (and Africa, interestingly; still a lot of homophobia on that continent).

        Also should be mentioned that there are two similarly named Presbyterian church denominations and one is cool and the other is VERY not.

        Still, all the more reason to not get hung up on labels.

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      I’m not religious these days, but I’m really glad the church I raised in was a UCC church. My first experience with blatant church bigotry was when I went to a Baptist church service with a friend when I was around 10. Pastor used 3 slurs within 10 minutes, even as a 10 year old I was wondering what the fuck happened to love thy neighbor.

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      Giving people shit for a label is bigoted as fuck.

      Only if you have no choice about it. I have zero qualms criticizing people for their choices.

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        From Merriam-Webster:

        Bigot
        : a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices
        especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance

        Synonyms include dogmatist, partisan, and sectarian.

        Here’s an article that may help you to understand why you are a bigot a bit better: https://www.existbetter.co/single-post/2019/04/15/Bigotry-is-a-SymptomHow-to-Handle-a-Bigot

        Hopefully we can eliminate hate of all kinds from this world.

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          Racial or ethnic groups are made up of people who did not have a choice about their race or ethnicity. While indoctrination from childhood can certainly cause a person’s religious views, and work alongside community pressure to keep them pinned in place, ultimately an individual is responsible for their own thoughts. Criticizing someone for what they think is not bigotry.

          Your article link goes to a domain that does not exist.

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            Maybe it’s blocked in your country. I had no trouble accessing the article.

            EDIT: Looks like the website got deleted after I linked it. Weird.

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