Grumpy

Not a schism between Methodists and Presbyterians, mind you, but a split within each denomination. Over gay clergy, naturally.

Richard Land, who leads the Southern Baptists' Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, is quoted in an Associated Press story today saying the issue of gay ordination will cause whichever side loses the fight to split off.

Southern Baptists are safe, of course. "The issue isn't divisive in churches that accept the Biblical teaching that homosexual behavior is sinful," he says.

At that, I just had to laugh -- given that he (and the churches he frets over) are Protestants. Tell you what: you just keep splitting and splitting and splitting until you find the one denomination that has it all right, and the others are all wrong.

To his credit, Land says divorce is a more pressing problem than homosexuality. I can agree with that, though probably not the way he means it. Land believes that Christian have a harder time evangelizing because they lose moral authority through divorce -- probably because Jesus said it's something you can never do (except sometimes, when he said it was okay).

SanDiegoAtheist

Hey look - isn't that the Judea People's Front?

"SPLITTERS!"

And now for something completely different....

I especially liked the part where the Rev was stating that this could NEVER happen if the church just condemned homosexuality to begin with.

Makes ordaining/marrying/treating them as human beings rather a moot point now wouldn't it?

It's not like the SBC has EVER had any Churches split off from it. That would be unTHINKable.

"SPLITTERS!"

cheers,

The San Diego Atheist