re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?

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A church should not turn away any sinner

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The UMC has never turned away a gay or lesbian. Ever. That is not the issue. Every UMC I've been a part of in my 68 years has had gays or lesbians as members...They came to church...worshipped God. They didn't try to push their beliefs on Christian people....Two churches I was a member of even had gay organ players or choir leaders...

The whole issue is....The Methodist Church Book of Discipline which is the church constitution has always stated....The UMC cannot ordain gays or lesbians to serve as Ministers of church....Nor can UMC Ministers marry same sex couples...over the years the high majority of the upper leaders of the UMC (Bishops) have come up in liberal universities and seminary's that they have forced this on the church....The last several years these very liberal Bishops have gone Totally against the Book of Discipline and have assigned gays and lesbians to serve churches and even marry same sex couples going 180 against the laws of the church...There is the issue pretty much in a nutshell....There are some other issues too...but this is the main reason....

People need to be informed and there are several that are badly misinformation in this.