Some intolerant members of our church really pissed off the pastor

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11. We too have had no need to vote and are definitely staying with The United Methodist Church.

If so many of those on the other side of the divide had not left our church because we were probably the last to open after shutting down during the pandemic, it might not have been so easy.

They were mad at our then-pastor about a number of other issues too. He prayed at a student gathering of high school students protesting George Floyd's death, and after a black family of tourists had a racial incident that caused them to cut short their visit, our church signed onto a Black Lives Matter ad in the local newspaper. One insisted BLM was a socialist organization. We looked up one day and realized the ones who would have tried to block us on the issue of being fully inclusive, ordaining and marrying LGBTQ+ people. had all left. We miss friends but are thankful we can move forward with doing the right thing.