UMC Cozies Up To Mad Dictator

I am extremely disappointed in the United Methodist Church, which appears to be embracing the man who pledged to 'wipe Israel off the map' and see a world without America.

Mark Tooley directs the United Methodist Committee at the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) in Washington, DC. He recently wrote a column in the Weekly Standard about a meeting between Ahmadinejad and 150 church officials at the United Methodist Women's Church Center for the United Nations. That meeting, he says, was touted as a "time of dialogue and prayerful reflection among the children of Abraham."

"There is a blossoming friendship going on between American religious and church officials and Iran's apocalyptic radical president."

Tooley makes these statements even while recognizing the conundrum I've pointed out before:

"It's very odd how the religious left in America often fawns towards or apologizes for the transgressions of radical Islam, given that radical Islam of course is very hostile to much of what the religious left stands for in terms of women's rights and gay rights," says the IRD spokesman. "But the continuum seems to be that the religious left sympathizes with any movement or foreign governments that are hostile to the U.S."

Not only does Ahmadinejad want to destroy America and Israel, but the religious caliphate he wishes to set up in our ashes would eradicate the same tolerance that Tooley relies on to support Ahmadinejad!

Does it get any more nonsensical and backwards than that??

There's my two cents.