Collateral Damage
I am currently a member of a United Methodist Church. The UMC is in the throws of a great debate... what to do the with the LGBTQ friends. It's a knock down, drag out, probably-won't-be-so-united-when-this-is-over fight. People are expressing their opinions, as they have the right to do. Words being slung like bullets, back and forth. And I found myself in the crossfire. Wounded. Why wounded? I'm not L or G or B or T or Q. But I am divorced. And this whole issue is just "same song, second verse." 100 years ago I would not have been allowed to be a member of a UMC church. Unless my husband had committed adultery. Which he didn't. As a woman who was the one who filed for divorce, I would not have been allowed to be a member of the church, nor would I have been allowed to marry in the church. Sound familiar? Am I just lucky that the UMC decided to "conform to the world views" on my particular situation when they did? But we can