UMC Ministry Launches Hotline Staffed With Chaplains To Help Traumatized Congregants Cope With Trump Win
The United Methodist Church continues to be a simmering cauldron of every vile and aberrant theology conceived in hell, which is why it is almost exclusively populated by weak men and women who are led around by their feelings and fleshly desires rather than the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Enter Reconciling Ministries, an organization “committed to intersectional justice across and beyond the United Methodist connection, working for the full participation of all LGBTQ+ people throughout the life and leadership of the Church.” In their role, they have over 1100 UMC congregations affiliated with them. In light of President Trump’s decisive victory over Harris, they launched a hotline for traumatized, depressed, or otherwise anxious Methodists to vent and receive emotional support.
The hotline is staffed with LGBTQ-affirming pastors and chaplains, and a quick perusal of the comments demonstrates how badly these folk need it, with one woman lamenting that she hadn’t gotten out of bed since hearing the news, and impastor Valerie Ohle sharing her tale of woe and suffering.
“I have been in constant congregational and pastoral care mode since last night. The majority of my congregation is LGBTQ. The family renting our parsonage is here legally, but only speaks Spanish. We are one of only 4 fully inclusive churches in our ultra-conservative county and new folks are reaching out. My own grief will just have to wait its turn. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayers.”
