The Bishop’s of the United Methodist Church have decided that they are righteous in themselves and decided to have contempt for others. (Luke 18: 9`14)

The Bishop’s of the United Methodist Church have decided that they are righteous in themselves and decided to have contempt for others. (Luke 18: 9`14)

It is amazing and ironical that they chose a bishop from Germany and a bishop from Alabama to express their contempt for others.  It was in Germany in the 1930’s that Christians there did not resist Hitler sending all the gay and lesbian people he could find to the gas chambers.  And Alabama is the capital of the Confederacy and the home of Jim Crow, where we still have a 1901 constitution in place that institutionalized and legalized Jim Crow.  White male Methodists constructed and keep in place the Alabama 1901 Constitution.  They had to reject John Wesley’s stance against slavery and keep Jesus in the grave, so that the bishops of the white Methodist Episcopal Church South could keep their slaves under Jim Crow and keep our white churches segregated.

What is more amazing and ironical is that the contempt of others is being expressed by two female bishops who can only be bishops in the church by overcoming the fundamentalist literal reading of the Bible.  The Bible has a lot more to say about the uncleanness of women and the prohibition of women to be in leadership of the church than it has to say about gay and lesbian people.

We United Methodist are certainly a confused, hypocritical and backslid people when it comes to the great commandment (Matthew 22: 36-40) and the great commission (Matthew 28: 18-20). 

Joe and Bobby are at home justified.

RLH   11/19/13