As a United Methodist, this has been a somber weekend. On Saturday, I watched my newsfeed fill up with announcements of disaffiliating churches that had been approved in special annual conference sessions across the connection. These churches were departing under a paragraph in the Book of Discipline that allowed churches to leave because of their conscience around the issue of human sexuality. However, the departures are not around human sexuality in general, but specifically regarding the “practice” of “homosexuality or the ordination or marriage of self-avowed practicing homosexuals.”
Then, early Sunday, my phone began to buzz with texts: another mass shooting, this one in Colorado Springs at Club Q, a gay bar. Five people dead, at least 18 wounded. The venue has been described as “a place to escape discrimination and harm.” The irony is sadly tangible and painful.
There is a blood red thread that runs through all this, that eventually gives rise to violence and death.
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