Wednesday, June 28, 2006
UMC Congregation Invokes Right of Sanctuary
The First United Methodist Church of Tacoma, Washington is offering its campus as a sanctuary for military personnel who wish to escape deployment orders.
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I like how Mark Tooley refers to the "national church leadership" as being "very much on the left." Other than the Council of Bishops, the leadership of the global UMC is made up of the lay and clergy of the GC and those who serve on the boards and agencies. If memory serves, the traditionally more conservative jurisdictions of the denomination have a higher percentage of representatives on boards and have enough delegates to GC to steer the church in whatever direction they want on most issues.
This church may in fact be liberal, but I don't think that it is fair to infer that all evangelicals support the while all liberals do not. I believe that this is some cross over on this issue. I am by any measure an evangelical and yet I have my doubts about the war in Iraq. I also must admit that I didn't know that United Methodist Churches could offer sanctuary to anyone.
the um news service covered this topic some weeks ago and it didn't give an over left or right painting.
all the umc article said was that someone could stay there, but they couldn't hold the church responsible for any type of criminal charges, ie. harboring a fugitive.
looks like the church needs sanctuary from bad website design
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