By David J. Stewart | April 2008 | Click for background music in a new window
There
is an actual organization in California, founded in 1966 by Satanist Anton
LaVey, called the "Church of Satan." However, if I were the Devil and
I wanted to build a church to recruit followers, I wouldn't make it so
obvious by naming it the "Church of Satan." No, rather, I would build
a church that looked like a genuine church to deceive people into thinking
it was a real church. Look no further than the Glide
Memorial Methodist Church in San Francisco...
Glide Memorial Methodist Church openly advocates homosexuality. This San Francisco Church is a member of the United Methodist Church. It was founded and is funded by a trust, from Mrs. Lizzie Glide, widow of an oil millionaire back in the 1920's. In 1969, "Rev." Cecil Williams, the pastor of Glide Methodist Church spoke to 2,000 at the Centenary United Methodist Church in St. Louis. According to Blu-Print (a periodical once published at Bob Jones University) 4-25-72, here is what he said:
"In every service at Glide Church we embrace one another. We kiss one another. We smell one another. We feel one another. The chairman of my Official Board was an admitted homosexual. And why not? This is one way for every person to find his sexual identity...Most of our people believe in the communal life. I have not married a single couple at Glide who were not already living together...People become stimulated in our church happenings. We believe in people doing their thing and doing what they want to. Several have became so stimulated...they have disrobed. One young man came to church covered only by a blanket...he walked up front and threw his blanket down and stood there totally naked. I walked over and patted him and said, Man what a beautiful body you have." —Pastor Cecil Williams (1969)
Blu-Print also reported that the Northern California Council of Churches have their offices in the Glide church building. I have here before me, a picture of two homosexual men being married in the Glide Church. This is so sickening!
Who would attend such a devilish, immoral, and nasty church? Hillary Clinton of course (and she shamelessly admits it from her own website)...
"Back in November 2007, President Clinton met with a group of women faith leaders in Oakland and Janice Mirikatani, Former Executive Director of Glide's 86 programs and wife of Reverend Cecil Williams, reflected on the time that both Chelsea and President Clinton attended Glide Memorial Church many years ago."
In fact, Hillary Clinton said that Bill taking her to the Glide Memorial Methodist Church was: "The greatest Mother's Day present" he could have given her.
To no surprise, U2 front man "Bono" (real name Paul Hewson), also attends Glide Memorial United Methodist in San Francisco from time-to-time. “When he’s in the area Bono is a frequent worshipper at Glide...” (Flanagan, U2 at the End of the World, p. 99). Bono attended Glide Memorial during a special service to honor Clinton’s 1992 presidential election. Birds-of-a-feather flock together. Whether it be Rock 'N' Roll, homosexuality or abortion — the common denominator is apostasy and idolatry.
If you think Glide is bad, take a look at where the Clinton's attended church in Washington D.C. when Bill Clinton was president...
Foundry Memorial Methodist "Cult"
c 1997 Mark E. Howerter
Last week's article started out with a statement about how every time I wonder whether we are being too hard on the Clintons or not, that some more info comes along which assures me we are not. Some have said that the Clintons only attended Glide Memorial Methodist Church in San Francisco once and that was way back in 1982. OK fine, then let's talk about the church they both attend regularly now in Washington, D.C.
Any church would have to try awfully hard to keep up with the antics that regularly go on at Glide, but Foundry Memorial Methodist Church (which is about a mile from the White House) does a good job of trying to do just that. While I haven't uncovered any stories about topless dancers at Foundry like there have been at Glide, Foundry is still not far behind.
Take the homosexuality symposium held at Foundry for example. Jesus was spoken of as a "drag queen." Homosexual marriages were praised and the Ten Commandments were declared immoral. The keynote speaker was the infamous Episcopal Bishop John Spong who has trashed every Christian doctrine held dear by the true church since its birth in the first century.
Bishop Spong made fun of the star which led the wise men to the baby Jesus and then went on to make fun of all Biblical prophecy claiming that, "People can't predict future events. It's a magical view of the Bible." If that wasn't enough he then attacked the virgin birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Spong said that events in Jesus' life didn't happen the way they are reported in the Bible, but were just "interpreted" that way. Spong also claimed that the Apostle Paul was a "self-hating homosexual" and that legitimizing homosexuality within the church is " a total justice issue exactly like the civil rights movement."
How were Bishop Spong's beliefs received by Foundry's pastor, J. Philip Wogaman? Wogaman said, "Bishop Spong's remarks this morning were so stimulating," noting that he also shares concerns about a "literalistic" view of the Bible.
"The day-long `celebration' was organized by PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). Called `Sharing Our Rainbow of Light,' the November 10 (1995) symposium's speakers surprised even their mostly homosexual audience of several hundred persons with their denial of traditional religious beliefs."
According to Mark Tooley, who attended the event, at the conclusion of the symposium, "The clergy processional was led by flags showing the homosexual rainbow emblem. A banner behind the altar carried the rainbow surrounded by skulls, symbolizing `truth, justice, reconciliation, and peace.'"
During the service Tooley reports that, "male couples held each other and kissed in the pews." "The Reverend Kwabena Rainey Cheeks of the Inner Light Unity Fellowship, a New Age group, prayed to `ancestors, lights, angels, saints and spirits of Buddha, Mohammed and Jesus.'"
The Foundry church has been praised in the D.C. gay newspaper, "The Washington Blade." The "Blade" quotes Wogaman as saying that he disagrees with the United Methodist stand against ordaining gay ministers. "I deeply regret that some fine people have not been able to serve because of that rule," Wogaman told a "Blade" reporter.
Mark Tooley, director of UM Action, a committee of the Institute on Religion and Democracy attended the meetings and tape recorded the symposium on homosexuality at Foundry. I had the privilege of speaking to Mark on the phone while researching this article and I credit Mark for most of what I have been able to learn about Foundry. The reason he is such a credible witness is that Mr. Tooley is a Methodist man. He is not an outsider who has a goal of trashing the Methodist Church. It is clear from his writings that he has a love for the Methodist church, but a disdain for what is being done by Pastor J. Phillip Wogaman at Foundry Memorial Methodist Church in Washington, D.C.
Foundry is not typical of the 8.7 million member United Methodist Church according to Tooley. "For example, Foundry is one of only 87 churches out of the denomination's 37,000 that have enlisted in a `Reconciling' movement that rejects Methodism's disapproval of homosexual practices."
Foundry's pastor, J. Philip Wogaman, has gone on record publicly as a supporter of socialism and pro-choice. He despises capitalism. He supports higher taxes and the taking over of health care by the federal government. He saluted the Supreme Court for its ruling on Roe V. Wade for its "humane spirit and practical wisdom." He also publicly speaks out against any initiative to bring back prayer in schools. Tooley also quotes Wogaman as saying, "Like the `Washington Post,' the Scriptures contain both truth and error." He has also publicly called Biblical authority a "crutch" which he has preached against.
Well, let's see what kind of "church" the Clintons call home in Washington D.C. One that holds pro-homosexual symposiums and invites the reprobate Bishop Spong to be the keynote speaker. One that is pastored by a man who believes in ordaining homosexuals into ministry. One led by a pastor who believes in socialism, higher taxes, no prayer in schools, that the Bible is full of errors and on a plane with "The Washington Post," and that Biblical authority is a crutch. One pastored by a man who thinks Bishop Spong is "stimulating" when he makes fun of a belief in the virgin birth and resurrection of Jesus from the dead and Biblical prophecy in general. The list could go on and on. I must not. Suffice it to say that birds of a feather flock together and the Clintons fit right in at Foundry Memorial Methodist Church in Washington, D.C. just fine.
One hallmark of a cult is that they subtract from the person of Jesus Christ and His deity and/or they add or take away from the Bible. Phillip Wogaman at Foundry Memorial Methodist Church does both. You can still choose to put "Methodist" over the door of Foundry Church in Washington, D.C., but "Cult" would make a better header. Bill and Hillary Clinton have shown their true "spiritual" colors by the "church" they have chosen to attend.
There will still be those who will tell me, "judge not brother that you be not judged" when I say that the Clintons can't be true believers, but anyone who can't see the difference between the Clintons and a Christian are blind followers of the blind.
A desire to ordain homosexuals, skulls behind the altar, praying to ancestors and Buddha, denying the virgin birth and resurrection of Christ from the dead etc. would make any true believer uncomfortable to say the least. A Christian might wander in a church like that once, but would not be able to call it home, and yet the Clintons proudly call Foundry home. Not only that, but Hillary said Bill taking her to visit Glide Memorial Methodist Church in San Francisco was the greatest Mother's Day present she ever received.
If there is any discernment left at all in the true church then let's use it, and see if there is any difference between Glide and Foundry Churches and a cult. If not, then let's no longer fear calling a spade a spade and admitting that the Clintons can not be examples of true believers in Jesus Christ.
Woe unto America!
