Posted by
Maudie in Mandeville on Sunday, July 09, 2006 9:49:47 AM
The United Methodist Church and Amnesty International recently decried the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing capital punishment to continue in the U.S. with a vigil outside the nation's high court, CNSnews reports. The United Methodist Church (UMC) is giddy that they were the first church to come out against capital punishment. "Fifty years ago, the United Methodist Church gave a bold yes to life," said UMC Bishop Ray Chamberlain, "and a resounding no to the death penalty.
The sanctimonious bishop says in their judgment it is "morally indefensible to deliberately destroy life, devalues life to the ultimate extreme, and continues the cycle of violence." Obviously to the Methodists, some killing devalues life more than other killing. The United Methodist Church began in the early 1970s to view abortion as a "choice". Their favor of abortion has been so strong that two of its institutions helped organize and affiliate with the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights. For many years RCAR used office space in the United Methodist Building across the street from the U.S. Supreme Court. In both 1996 and 1997 the United Methodist Church publicly supported President Clinton’s veto of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.
Query: Does the Methodist altar have foot stirrups? Anyone??
Since 1976 there have been 1,029 people who've been heard by a jury of their peers and executed for their crimes against humanity. Since the 1973 Roe v Wade, there have been over a million babies executed each and every year for convenience. So much for the Methodist's phony moral judgments.