United Methodist Church criticized for pro-abortion alliance

[Soldier4Christ]

United Methodist Church criticized for pro-abortion alliance

The United Methodist Church is being criticized for its alliance with a pro-abortion coalition. The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice has come out against the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the ban on partial-birth abortion, calling it a "serious setback." The pro-abortion group is supported by several mainline Christian denominations, including the United Methodist Church.



Mark Tooley with the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) says this alliance between the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and the United Methodist Church does not make sense. But unfortunately, he notes, "this has been the trend among liberal mainline Protestant denominations over the last 40 years."

It was several of these liberal denominations, not just the Methodists, that helped to create this abortion coalition back in the early 1970s, Tooley points out. "And unfortunately," he says, "the officers and the bureaucrats and the theologians of many of these mainline denominations heed the demands of feminist theology and the very aura of the sexual revolution."

In that process, the IRD spokesman adds, these churches "set aside historic Christian teachings, which -- of course -- disapprove of abortion."