A mass resignation of members from the Mormon church is expected to happen Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, over the newly seen rules that essentially ban children of same-sex parents from participating in any Mormon rites of passages until such children reach 18, leave home and disavow their parents. Members now in gay marriages have been declared apostates.
Interestingly, according to the New York Times report,
It appears that the new rules were not supposed to be made public. They were issued as changes to a confidential handbook, and sent out by email a week ago to leaders of the church’s 30,000 congregations around the world. They were leaked to the news media and confirmed by a church spokesman.
Pretty disgusting, actually.
But, that’s not what I’m thinking about here. Instead, I’m wondering if The United Methodist Church will see the similar mass resignations should the General Conference to be held May, 2016 in Portland, OR, refuse to remove the discriminatory language about homosexuals that still sits in our Book of Discipline.
The one thing we have in our favor: there will be no secrecy here. This will all be out in the open.
It looks like the Mormon church will have a great cleansing from this. The broken ones will be kicked out or leave voluntarily. What’s left will be those of pure doctrine and pure body. Very admirable, actually.
Precisely what we want in the UMC, right? Only those who are of pure doctrine and pure body get to stay. We can introduce new legislation to set up sexual and doctrinal tribunes to investigate everyone’s bedroom habits and everyone’s reading material to make sure no one strays from the permitted line.
That’s the way to model Jesus, I guess. It does mean cutting out some pretty significant portions of the gospels, but as long as we can rely on a few clobber verses to shut anyone up who disagrees with the purity standards, there will be no problem, none at all.
Yeah, I’m not feeling too good about this.
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