Rev. Chuck Currie - minister United Church of Christ
http://www.speroforum.com/a/WPWBBHFDBY4/73004-Inventing-the-Peoples-Progressive-Patriotic-Church quote:
“ members of the United Church of Christ, the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church (USA), and Presbyterian Church (USA), Christian Church (Disciples of Christian), along with the historic African American denominations and others, to dream again about working together as one church, not separately.”
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Rev. Currie proposes a reunification of those churches that are “moving in a progressive theological direction” – embracing, specifically, “movements of liberation for Africans, Latin Americans, women, and gays and lesbians,” preaching and living out “a Social Gospel,” and “protecting women from those who would seek to return them to second class citizen status.”
Rev. Currie explains why the Church of Christ is pro-abortion:
http://chuckcurrie.blogs.com/chuck_currie/2004/11/can_christians_.htmlThe United Church of Christ is a signing member of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
Other pro-abortion denominations include:
Episcopal Church
Presbyterian Church (USA)
United Church of Christ
United Methodist Church
General Board of Church and Society, United Methodist Church
General Board of Global Ministries, Women’s Division, United Methodist Church
Unitarian Universalist
Unitarian Universalist Association
Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation
Young Religious Unitarian Universalists
Continental Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Network
The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice now has clergy "training":
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Ultimately clergy who take this training and engage in this type of pastoral counseling will be helping a woman to strike a balance between the time she needs to consider her decision carefully and the time she decides to act (over 89% of all abortions are performed in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, both by choice and due to legal barriers to abortions post-12 weeks).
And, a clergy pledge:
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Clergy for Choice Pledge
We clergy members, representing many different religious denominations around the country, pledge our strong support for ... access to safe, legal, and affordable abortions.
We honor the value and dignity of all human life, but...in a society where all are free to live according to their own consciences and religious beliefs, we do not believe any one religious philosophy should govern the law for all Americans.
Therefore, we sign this statement as members of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Clergy for Choice Network and pledge to work to educate our congregations, our communities, and our elected officials on the need for our society to respect moral and religious diversity and to uphold the dignity of women as ethical decision makers.
"We honor the value and dignity of all human life but...need to...uphold the dignity of women as ethical decision makers."
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Revelation 17:
...and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and bedecked with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication;
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