Saint Mark
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
781 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30308-1205
404.873.2636
facsimile: 404.873.2639
office@stmarkumc.org
WWW.stmarkumc .org
July 1,2015
To James Avery,
Acting on behalf of the congregation as represented by Administrative Council of Saint Mark United Methodist Church, we, the Board of Trustees, hereby notify James Avery that his presence on the property of Saint Mark United Methodist Church, 781 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta Georgia 30308; bounded by Peachtree Street, Fifth Street, and Juniper Street, shall constitute a criminal trespass from the time of the delivery of this notice forward.
E.C. LaRocca-Pitts
Senior Pastor, representing the Board of Trustees
Accepting
Serving
It's been almost a month since this letter signed by Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts on behalf of the congregation of St. Mark United Methodist Church, roughly 80% homosexuals (mostly men), handed to me by two uniformed officers informing me of criminal trespassing from that point forward.
And the best part is the fact that this letter,
although I was able taking a pretty good guess as to some of the reasons,
does not say why.
"Rev. Dr. Beth is nothing but a... Catholic fag hag."
~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
"SHE'S METHODIST...NOW!!!"
~(Rev. Joshua Noblitt: Minister of Social(?)Justice)~
"Okay. METHODIST!!!...fag hag then."
~(Simply Jim: One Pearl, Total Pig, Anti-Christ)~
And this is the point I was trying to make:
Within a conversation between two gay men there is absolutely nothing wrong with our Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts, who is married and having two children with someone also having a PhD in addition to a his MDiv degree, being the Senior Pastor of St. Mark United Methodist Church downtown Atlanta;
a
"FAG HAG".
Except,
I was not expecting it to have been made this easy:
Unless she happens to be a ...
CATHOLIC...
fag hag.
And...
Rev. Joshua Noblitt is the one who's having the problem with this thought.
CATHOLIC F*G H*G, METHODIST F*G H*G, BAPTIST F*G H*G, EPISCOPALIAN F*G H*G, JEWISH F*G H*G, MUSLIM F*G H*G, BUDDHIST F*G H*G, etc., etc., etc...?
Why should I even care;
I'm radical atheist!"
So much for...HIS...ecumenical spirit.
Found the following on Wikipedia
Humpty appears in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1872), where he discusses semantics and pragmatics with Alice.
"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'?" Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'?"
"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. "They've a temper, some of them—particularly verbs, they're the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—however, I can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That's what I say!"
Impenetrability..?
NOW...
THAT'S A GOOD WORD!
What makes our story even more fascinating;
this is not the reason eventually told to me three weeks later by a visit to my home from Department of Homeland Security, behind, this letter informing me criminal trespassing on private property belonging to St. Mark United Methodist Church
I absolutely,WAS NOT, expecting this ...
immaculate ejaculation,
"SHE'S METHODIST NOW,"
exploding,
and I mean,
EXPLODING!!!
from this
Minister of Social Justice at St. Mark United Methodist Church;
The Rev. Joshua Noblitt.
A pastor, neighborhood activist and gay Atlanta man launched his bid for the Georgia House this week, hoping his years of work on social justice, public safety and planning issues will convince voters to send him to the State Capitol.
Nevermind that Josh Noblitt could also offer state lawmakers an added dose of pastoral patience – he's a social justice minister at Saint Mark United Methodist Church – and conflict resolution – he's a licensed marriage and family therapist. Noblitt, a 37-year-old Democrat, is running for the District 59 seat. State Rep. Margaret Kaiser, the gay-friendly incumbent, says she won't seek re-election in 2016 and instead will run for mayor in 2017.
Noblitt says the open race provides a "launching pad" to continue his decade of community activism in his southeast Atlanta neighborhood as a state lawmaker.
"I have been involved in the community for a long time, in this particular south Atlanta neighborhood for 10 years," Noblitt said. "I have a good appreciation for the issues folks in this area face, having lived here myself, and I want to take those conversations and issues to the state level."
The legislative seat includes an eclectic swath of Atlanta, including Poncey-Highland, Little Five Points, Inman Park, Reynoldstown, Grant Park, Lakewood Heights and East Point. Noblitt says he feeds off that diversity.
"We do live in one of the most diverse districts in the state, which is really energizing," he says. "Building relationships will all those folks is really the foundation of new policies that work. That is the key to all of it – relationship building."
Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts, as senior pastor of St. Mark United Methodist Church,
along with her Minister(?)of Social(?)Justice Joshua Noblitt, take up too much space with this God of their worship.
And...
they should not even be allowed
off this piece of ...PRIVATE...PROPERTY...if this is
how
they abuse it..?
"Well...
we have 'Spirit' as in with a big 'S'; and we have 'spirit' as in with a little 's'."
~(Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca Pitts: Senior Pastor St. Mark UMC)~
This was Beth's contribution to a question asked during one of her Bible Study 101 Classes I've attended:
What exactly...IS...the "holy spirit"..?
All of a sudden, the class became loud with several people talking at once; Beth calling every one's attention back to her reading from the Book of Ecclesiastes. Only later, a week or two later, did I learn that someone had said,
"We only have one mother."
Well I already knew this,
and I wish I had heard this being said at the time.
"Beth,
do you realize that 'Spirit' with a big 'S' and 'spirit' with a little 's' translates into God with a big 'G' and god with a little 'g'..?"
~(Simply Jim's Meths Addiction)~
Beth quietly looks away; neither agreeing nor disagreeing.
You don't ...
"just love"
reading from the Book of Ecclesiastes unless it's supportive of who you are in some way.
And...
I've yet to confront her with this...
REVELATION.
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