We are again shocked and disappointed that UM leaders are not in support of the Manhattan Declaration. They seem to support same sex marriages, the murder of unborn children and the use of church tithes to promote a Marxist takeover of American Churches.

I was raised in the Methodist church. I am now 66 Years old. I am no longer attending a United Methodist church. We are now attending a Southern Baptist church and plan to resign our membership in the UMC. It is my opinion that continue following the UMC bishops would be a unholy sin.

God, please bless America.

I am outraged that my monetary donations have been used to support politics, lobbying, and a left-wing agenda to “transform” what is already greatest nation on earth. The UMC will not receive one more cent from my wallet.

God bless to my UMC family. I’m outta here.

I am a member of only 3 years, just a little shorter time from when I came back to Christ. My wife and I joined UMC together. We are both active in our church. I am so serious about Wesley’s teachings that I bought a set of his writings.

Now I have become disillusioned with UMC, particularly the leadership. I just read Mike Tooley’s book, Taking Back the UMC. Even taken with a grain of salt, it is a serious criticism of who leads UMC.

And, without being judgmental towards any one individual, I would say many of our leaders need to seek repentance for many reasons. And, need replaced.

I wonder how many other Christian denominations and leaders are willing to take a stand. I’m afraid the Church is spreading a social gospel instead of a “repentant” one as Wesley preached.

I know that our Social Principles also support the dignity of the human individual and call for true freedom of conscience and religion (as does the declaration); our Social Principles support “laws in civil society that define marriage as the union of one man and one woman” (as does the declaration); and our Social Principles call for a respect of the sanctity of the lives of unborn babies — and also of their mothers (as does the declaration).

So it seems to me a no-brainer that the UM leadership should support this declaration. I wonder what they would say if asked why they haven’t?

It also seems to me that the UM General Board of Church and Society tends to lobby very selectively for the Social Principles — that is, they lobby for climate stewardship or fighting poverty in keeping with our Social Principles; but they don’t seem to do much lobbying to ban partial-birth abortion or to support laws that define marriage as a union between one man and one woman (both of which are supported by our Social Principles). That is, those Social Principles that align with the principles of the political Left are supported by Church and Society in their lobbying, while those that align with the political Center or Right are apparently ignored.

This is a great scandal, but no one (i.e., among bishops and other leaders) seems to be calling them out on it.

These UM leaders should be replaced or they will continue to drag this denomination into the relativistic sewer it has been descending into for the past 40 years.