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2 TEXAS UNED METHODIST CHURCH APPROVE OF HOSTG GAY WEDDGS

Stedfast Baptist Church, which was forced to leave two lotns Tarrant County last year and recently bought a buildg Cedar Hill, was the subject of protts church was found Fort Worth 2014 and is led by pastor Jonathan Shelley, who advoted for “pal punishment” for gay people at an Arlgton Cy Council meetg last year and, a sermon, doubted that the Nazis killed six ln Jews. In June 2022, pastor Dillon Aw said “Every sgle homosexual our untry should be...

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class="tryAudPlaceholr"></div></div><div emProp="articleBody" class="body-text dmnc_featur-article-body-body-module__Ldbl- mb-8 false"><sectn><p class="body-text-paragraph"><b>A new church, a new life</b></p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Re: "Man banned om church served better," by Jacquielynn Floyd, Sunday Metro lumn.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6 hidn md_flex"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__hQ4DU flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-sktopInle1" data-un="dmn/opn/letters-to-the-edor/article/sktopInle1" data-targetg="{}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">The news regardg Watermark Communy Church revokg the membership of a gay man has raised a qutn among, not only LGBTQ Christians, but also the alli who sire a church that supports their beliefs and perspectiv. After leavg my posn of learship a large church for beg gay myself, I have found fort, acceptance, approval, love and a Christian fay the ngregatn of Lift Communy Church.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6 md_hidn"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__h-NaF dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__u4HRm dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 md_hidn htlad-dfpPosn1_article" data-un="dmn/opn/letters-to-the-edor/article/dfpPosn1_article" data-targetg="{}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">A new church the Try Grov area of Dallas -- one of the fastt-growg church the cy -- is changg the narrative of Christiany. Lift Communy Church wel all people and is offerg hope and acceptance to the disenanchised and to anyone who walks the doors.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__J4vZB dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__oPm-X flex flex-row pb-6 md_pb-9 mb-9 md_mb-7 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-20 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light pt-6 md_pt-9 mt-9 md_mt-7"><div class="dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__LAPui mr-6 md_mr-8"><img class="dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__kbcj8 h-f" src=" alt="Perspective"/></div><div class="dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__nW1Im flex-to"><div class="dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__3rR5T dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__li9kJ mb-4 sendaryBold sendaryBold-20">Opn</div><p class="dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__RhDsU mb-4">Get smart opns on the topics North Texans re about.</p><form><label for="subscribeEmail" class="dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__cgbBU block mb-4 sendaryBoldCaps sendaryBoldCaps-20">Email Addrs</label><div class="dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__RJ-O5 flex flex-row flex-wrap gap-x-5"><div class="dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__pIXRj flex flex-l w-full"><put type="email" class="dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__sZ1DH py-4 px-4 w-full round" style="borr:1px solid #BBC1C4" value="" placeholr="Enter your email addrs" putid="subscribeEmail"/><p class="dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__nrih8 flex flex-wrap py-4 text-black sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-15 ntas-lk-blue-unrle">By signg up you agree to our <a class="lk-blue" href="/help/terms-of-service/">Terms of Service</a> and <a class="lk-blue" href="/help/privacy-policy">Privacy Policy</a></p></div><button type="subm" class="dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__5iXsN btn btn-blue foc_borr-blue" disabled=""><span class="dmnc_featur-cta-newsletter-cta-newsletter-module__DbaCN">SUBMIT</span></button></div></form></div></div><div><div class='s2nPlayer k-iEBoJZDZ' data-type='float'></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">To be turned away by a people who are meant to reprent the unndnal love that was exemplified by their lear over 2,000 years ago is a tough blow to e back om. But fdg people who round Christ's msage of love and acceptance for all is a rtorative measure that brgs one back to life.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Thank you, to Lift Communy Church and Pastor Shanté Buckley. May others fd their way home.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__D24FM w-full mb-6 htlad-nativeArticleInle" data-un="dmn/opn/letters-to-the-edor/article/nativeArticleInle" data-targetg="{"native":"nativeArticleInle","scroll":"1"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph"><i>Jon Flor, Dallas/Uptown </i></p><p class="body-text-paragraph"><b>Watermark follows the Bible</b></p><p class="body-text-paragraph">As a Christian, I have to believe what the Bible says about homosexualy. That said, I believe Watermark Communy Church was right to remove Jason Thomas om s ngregatn, as he was livg unrepentant s. When you live unrepentant s, and you reject the unsel of your pastor and fellow church members, then what else n the church do for you? I thk revokg Thomas' membership was appropriate.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6 md_hidn"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__YIHSg dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__u4HRm dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 md_hidn htlad-dfpPosn2_article" data-un="dmn/opn/letters-to-the-edor/article/dfpPosn2_article" data-targetg="{}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph"><i>A.J. Chilson, Prceton, @AJ_Chilson</i></p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6 hidn md_flex"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__-zD5N flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-sktopInle2" data-un="dmn/opn/letters-to-the-edor/article/sktopInle2" data-targetg="{}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph"><b>We are people of hope</b></p><p class="body-text-paragraph">After readg about Watermark Communy Church and s stance on homosexualy, I feel that 's important for me to wre you a quick note. While many church, templ and muny centers the Dallas-Fort Worth area actively seek to unrme the rights and digny of LGBTQ dividuals, there are also many, many lovg, affirmg and clive ho of worship this metroplex.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">As a gay man, I've experienced plenty of discrimatn -- veiled and blatantly open -- at the hands of the church, and I will be the first to adm that is not easy to walk to worship on Sunday morngs after hearg time and time aga that God was disappoted me.</p><div class=""><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__aJKMz hidn">Advertisement</div><div class="" id="teads-article-ad"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">But, as relig people we are a people of hope. After clgg to that hope, I fally found and fell love wh two church (one that I work at and one where I worship) that accept and love me -- regardls of who I am, or who I love. They regnize my digny as a child of God.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Although we ually only hear about the exclive muni of fah, 's important to know that there are clive on out there, wag to love for .</p><p class="body-text-paragraph"><i>Judson Watks, Dallas/Knox-Henrson </i></p><p class="body-text-paragraph"><b>GOP reach to cy bs</b></p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/opn/letters-to-the-edor/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"1"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">Re: "Brownsville bag fee," Thursday Metro Texas Briefs.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">In this brief, <em>The Dallas Morng News</em> noted that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is sug the cy of Brownsville about the $1 fee on plastic bags at store checkouts. I gus Paxton uld not fd anythg more important for his staff to do.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Republins poe the small-ernment philosophy and want to rid the average cizen of ernment terference their liv. They are always plag when Washgton sticks s nose state bs.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Yet, even when the lol cy missn cid 2009 on what is bt for Brownsville, our state ernment steps to paternalistilly take that lol thory away.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/opn/letters-to-the-edor/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"2"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">As did wh the cizens of Denton after that municipaly's voters cid that ackg should not be allowed wh cy lims, the Legislature passed Hoe Bill 40 limg the power of ci to rtrict drillg.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Republins want small ernment when sus their purpos, or actually, when sus the bs that le their pockets.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph"><i>Hans Voorn, Fris </i></p><p class="body-text-paragraph"><b>Black liv also matter</b></p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/opn/letters-to-the-edor/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"3"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">Contrary to what some would have believe, Black Liv Matter do not mean <em>only</em> black liv matter. Black Liv Matter means black liv <em>also</em> matter. The phrase is ed to scribe the disproportnate loss of life wh the black muny.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">This ceasels nflict between the crimal jtice system and the Ain-Amerin muny is not a nspiracy nor is a nspiracy theory. To characterize as eher would greatly preciate the issue. In no uncerta terms, stems, as always has, om many dividuals who are ntemptuo, fearful or, perhaps most troublg, ncient of black culture.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Tradnal remedi have the past advoted programs such as police trag, muny outreach and public tn. However, given equent cints year after year, one n succsfully argue that the tools have proved effectual. As a rult, some have advoted more unnventnal approach such those utilized by the San Francis 49ers' Col Kaepernick. To hasten the lethargic pace of reform, he and his fellow protters argue for ntroversial, nonvlent methods. However, spe beg a method of ee speech, many patrtic observers object strongly to their actns. Their argument is that such actns are disrpectful to the Amerin flag and a slight to our beloved veterans.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Perhaps Kaepernick's opponents are rrect their asssment, but then aga perhaps not. What n be said wh absolute certu is that the black muny fac a far more lethal challenge on a daily basis a not-so-ial Amerin life.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/opn/letters-to-the-edor/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"4"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph"><i>Craig McQuirter, Grand Prairie, @cmcquirt</i></p><p class="body-text-paragraph"><b>Comparg Tmp to Jay-Z</b></p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Re: "2 speech reflect 2 Ameris -- Analysis: First lady, Tmp liver hard-htg addrs," Friday news story.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Michelle Obama was recently "shaken to the re" by Donald Tmp's sexist ments.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/opn/letters-to-the-edor/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"5"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">I wonr if her sudnly strong, ostensibly femist leangs were equally shaken by the pornographic lyrics spewg om Jay-Z's lips July 2014, at the ncert she and her dghters attend Chigo.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Or, more aptly, is this jt the next act the farcil productn that is the 2016 printial electn?</p><p class="body-text-paragraph"><i>Matthew Harrison, Fort Worth </i></p><p class="body-text-paragraph"><b>Dallas Stars fans show disrpect</b></p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/opn/letters-to-the-edor/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"6"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">Wh all of the disrpect beg displayed to our natnal anthem, I urge Dallas Stars fans to please stop yellg "STARS" while the anthem is beg sung. I love the Stars as much as anyone, but this is far more disrpectful to our untry than is a show of support for our team.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">While not perfect, the Uned Stat is our untry and I am proud to be an Amerin. 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