Sad news out of Berea. “After 174 years, Baldwin Wallace University is no longer affiliated with the Methodist Church.” The university severed its ties with the faith in response to the vote by an international body of delegates … against allowing same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBTQ clergy.
The vote for the “Traditional Plan” has angered Methodist churches and schools around the country and other institutions are also considering leaving the faith. Supposedly, the presidents of Ohio’s Methodist schools — Ohio Northern University, University of Mount Union, Ohio Wesleyan University and Otterbein University — have also signed letters opposing the vote.
The “Traditional Plan” passed by a vote of 438 to 384, due largely to international support, primarily out of the Methodist churches in Africa. So my black brothers and sisters have once again demonstrated their fear and ignorance. This is not about whether church members embrace the right of a person to be the person God made them, it’s more about the acceptance or rejection of prejudice.
Black people around the globe stupidly go along with prejudice against people with different sexual orientations, obviously too dense to realize that prejudice is not — indeed, cannot be — compartmentalized. The same white person that hates gays or Jews also hates black people. So, in essence, when a black person discriminates against gays, they are strengthening the hand of those who would discriminate against them. Now is that stupid or what?
From CoolCleveland correspondent Mansfield B. Frazier mansfieldfATgmail.com. Frazier’s From Behind The Wall: Commentary on Crime, Punishment, Race and the Underclass by a Prison Inmate is available in hardback. Snag your copy and have it signed by the author at http://NeighborhoodSolutionsInc.