Last year, the United Methodist Church accepted Isaac Simmons, who regularly preaches dressed as a drag queen under the name Ms. Penny Cost, as a candidate for ordination. Since that time, Simmons, who serves as an associate pastor at Hope United Methodist Church in Bloomington, Illinois, has challenged basic theological concepts, projecting a worldview where divinity rests not in God but in queerness.
In a church preparing to split over LGBTQ issues, the drag queen pastor, who embraces queer theology while barely attempting to plaster on the basic tenets of Christian theology, has become a lightning rod. Conservatives argue that Simmons’ role as a celebrated figure among progressive Methodists proves the church has become so radically liberal as to forswear Christ. Progressives promote Simmons and invite him to preach in drag as a way to challenge the conservative position on sexuality that the denomination officially still takes. Source: American Spectator
I have been a Methodist all of my 84 years but no longer. The United Methodist Church has become filled with apostasy. I cheer for those members who have disassociated themselves from the United Methodist Church and moved to a Global Methodist Church or other church that has stuck to The Bible and who has Christ at its center. I weep for those who support the current United Methodist Church and for those too apathetic to care enough for their souls to leave.