Messing with Methodists

According to Renew, a Methodist renewal organization for women, an outspoken lesbian activist has been invited to give a keynote address to 8,000 United Methodist women on music and spirituality. And according to the official website of the United Methodist Women:

Emily Saliers of the folk-pop group Indigo Girls, joins her father Don E. Saliers of Candler School of Theology, as keynote speakers at the United Methodist Women's Assembly 2006 in Anaheim, Calif.

She is a self-avowed lesbian. But, Methodist women are reassured

that the father-daughter team was invited to speak because of their spiritual and theological understandings and their commitment to justice for women and children.

Her lesbianism has nothing to do with whatever she may have to say to Methodist women about spirituality, you see. Apparently spirituality has nothing to say about sexual disorders. Thus are official positions taken, without making them official. And her father, who teaches "theology and worship" should know better. And if he doesn't, someone else might instruct him.

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