I was sitting this morning, enjoying one of the best boxed (or bagged?) muffins that I have had in a while. I was listening to the news on ABC, when they reported on a group in California who were planning on voting this Sundat on whether or not to allow an open sex offender to gather with them.
Here is a link to an excerpt from the ABCNews story I saw: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3140436
This group, which refers to themselves as the Pilgrim United Church of Christ, associates themselves with the United Church of Christ (UCC). Many of you may know who they are. They are pretty much considered a liberal organization. They openly affirm homosexuality, divorce, etc. You may have seen their commercials, you know, the one where they show a bouncer outside of a church building, not allowing lesbians, homosexuals, mixed marriage families, etc. into the building. Or the one where these same people are being launched out of the pews for the same reasons.
Here they are from YouTube.com:
The motto, place on a banner outside of their building, reads “All are welcome.”
My questions are these: If “all are welcome,” why did they have to make a vote? To those of you who have children, how would you respond? To everyone, how should you respond?
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P.S. Do not mix up the United Church of Christ (UCC) with the Church of Christ. Both parties will probably be pretty mad at you :).