Posts tagged From Selma to Stonewall - Are We There Yet?
"OLD MEN": WHITE, BLACK, and ALL EVANGELICAL MEN, REPENT!
"OLD MEN": WHITE, BLACK, and ALL EVANGELICAL MEN, REPENT!

Once the Methodist/United Methodist Church was viewed as "America's Church." We boasted that Methodism was present in every County seat town. Those of us who are not Dallas Cowboys ("America's Team") fans despite their success this year, believed that we as a Church were more "American" than the Cowboys. But today in a distortion of the meaning of "Globality", we sacrifice the inclusivity, although not yet perfected, of the USA, in order to "use" the biases taught by missionaries, to justify discrimination in the UMC.

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Marilyn BennettGil Caldwell, John Wesley, United Methodist Church, racism, lgbtq, lynchings, evangelicals, Tony Campolo, Shane Claiborne, From Selma to Stonewall - Are We There Yet?Comment
"From Selma to Stonewall - Are We There Yet?"
"From Selma to Stonewall - Are We There Yet?"

I do not believe that most men, upon reflection, would want a negative depiction of men (as expressed in the slogan) to justify the rejection of an equal rights ordinance. "Men ofHouston", I do not believe you deserve the fear-mongering that used your gender to defeat an equal rights ordinance!

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Different Struggle Same FightMarilyncivil rights, Equal Rights, Equality, From Selma to Stonewall - Are We There Yet?, Houston, lgbtq, No Men In Women's Bathrooms, Proposition 1, Selma, stonewallComment