Tweeting at Ruthie

I posted the following reply to this Ruth Gledhill article, on our usual obsession, which you can read here:

http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2009/05/presbyterian-minister-in-antigay-nazi-sermon-rant.html

My reply:

I beg to differ. The United Methodist Church has maintained peace in the church by not giving ground on homosexuality. Yes, there are dissenters from that policy, and yes they are vocal, and yes, some of them are bishops. Nonetheless, those who think that one can gain peace and ecclesiatical survival by just lightening up and being nice - are demonstrably in error.