JUICEY ECUMENISM: Another Liberal Minister Departs UMC Ministry

Another Liberal Minister Departs UMC Ministry: While attracting virtually no media attention (in stark contrast to the recent defrocking of Frank Schaefer in Eastern Pennsylvania), another liberal minister has also recently been pushed out of the ranks of United Methodist clergy over our church’s biblical standards for sexual self-control.


Philip Thomason recently “retired” from his associate-pastor position at St. Mark’s UMC in Atlanta. The senior pastor, Beth LaRocca-Pitts, recently reported that 90 percent of the congregation’s membership self-identifies as LGBT. St. Mark’s recently violated church law by becoming formally affiliated with the Reconciling Ministries Network.

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Beth LaRocca-Pitts has been a member of the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church since 1983, though she has been preaching for longer than that! “When I was 12 year old and a member of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Athens, I realized that I would never be happy in life if I had to do another job other than the job that the priest at St. Joseph’s did. So I started attending my mother’s church, Athens First UMC and at age 14 I joined there. I also got a lay speaker’s certificate at age 17 and began preaching around the district.”

 

STEP ON A CRACK; YOU BREAK YOUR MOMMA'S BACK!

Can't help but notice:

1.  Beth LaRocca-Pitts left the Catholic Church because "she could never be happy in life if she had to do another job other than the job that the priest at St. Joseph's did...at the age of 12.
2. To accomplished this goal, she starts off by abandoning the Catholic Church altogether, when joining her mother’s church, Athens First UMC...at age 14. 
3. But somewhere between 12 years of age and 14 years of age, she only attending her mother's church....before joining.
4.  When it was time for college, Beth decided on Duke University instead of the University of Georgia, where her father Joe had taught for nearly 40 years in the College of Pharmacy.
5. Leaving the catholic church because they do not allow women ordained as priest, but eventually becoming  Methodist minister the way I see her..."just a catholic fag hag who's paid to be Methodist Administer to a congregation 80%...ALMOST... "BYE-BYE HONEY and THE KIDS NO MORE SEXUALS".
6.  Also even married with fraternal twins.

How she just about, pissed, on everything it means being a priest within the catholic church. 

But if you think about it, minus the priest involved with sexually abusing children, she Beth showed complete disrespect to the priest at St. Joseph that inspired her.   The second she stepped foot in the Methodist churh attended by her mother, it's sounding as if this may have been more of a rejection of her father; assuming her Father was a Catholic?

 Beth would have made a lousy priest had they ordained women!

Or a good one, if keeping busy by drawing the attention of the  not-so-celibate priests away from the vuneralbe children.