Some of the leadership in The United Methodist Church are attempting to steal away our faith and shipwreck the truth by radical advocacy or appalling silence. I call it sodomite marriage, for if you have a marriage union service for two men or two women, you have, to all appearances, a marriage that would naturally be consummated by an act of sodomy. Some UM professors continue to controvert scripture and Christian tradition in their teaching and writing. The standards for preparation and celebration of such services with same-gendered couples should be the same as for weddings of heterosexual couples. The answer is because much of the thinking in United Methodism today rents some altar space from the post-modern god of Pluralism.
Pluralism is the supreme over-arching god in the pantheon of modern politically correct gods.
This idolatrous process has been happening in our colleges, seminaries and therefore in our pastors and churches for 50 to 100 years. The General Conference then said it wanted to recognize some of the diverse expressions of faith within the Church. But some in The United Methodist Church have taken pluralism and turned it into a license to rewrite Christian faith and practice. Pluralism, which has benefited us in some ways, has led to the multiplication of doctrinal beliefs that are an affront to Jesus Christ and the truth of Scripture. Pluralism is enabling heresies to find a foothold within The United Methodist Church.