Church Proclaims Husband And Wife Are Offensive Terms

I’ve had an interesting spiritual life. When I was very young, I attended a Presbyterian church. Then after we moved, I attended a Methodist church from the age of six into adulthood. I got married when I was twenty to a Catholic girl that had two nuns and a priest in the family. Believe it or not, she chose to get married in the Methodist church. We had two kids and until they were around twelve and fourteen, we continued to attend the Methodist church.

Then during a visit by my wife’s grandmother, we attended a Catholic mass and I fell in love with the ceremony. After a few months, I committed to taking the RCIA classes and officially joined the Catholic church the following Easter. I attended that church for around twelve years and then just as quickly as I fell in love with the ceremony all those years earlier, I fell out of it. All of the traditions and structure are great, but for me it wasn’t enough. I now consider myself a spiritualist. I still have all of the same beliefs; I just don’t feel the need to attend a church. My relationship with God is just fine.

Throughout my journey of different churches, there have always been many constants. Obviously, the belief and worship of one God is first and foremost. There also is a great love of the traditional family. Mother, father and children, brothers and sisters. The family unit is something to be treasured. Secure in their belief in God and their love for each other, all the while pursuing common goals and enjoying life together.

The left wants to change that. They see people at peace, and they want to destroy that sanctity. They strike at the very heart of everything that we hold dear. From the education of our children to the very fact that men and women exist and are different. They want to change the words and labels we use to satisfy their perverted beliefs and if we resist, they project their reality onto us.

The Methodist Church in the United Kingdom has released its own “Inclusive Church Language Guide” in which parishioners are urged to avoid certain words on the basis that their usage makes “assumptions” about one’s family life.

Therefore, according to this churche’s warped and woke interpretation of life, words such as “husband” and “wife” are now considered offensive.

In a statement the church had this to say:

“As Christians, we need to have the courage for conversations that can sometimes be difficult, to recognize that we sometimes exclude people, to listen with humility, to repent of any hurtful language or imagery and to take care with how we listen and what we say, write or depict, in the Spirit of Christ.”

In their new woke guide, that Christians don’t need, they try to make their congregation feel guilty for their traditional values and layer on woke nonsense to justify why they are abandoning bedrock Christian beliefs.

“There is infinite variety in the way that God’s creation is expressed in human life This is worth bearing in mind as we speak and write.”

“Terminology such as ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ may sound inoffensive, but it makes assumptions about a family or personal life that is not the reality for many people.”

“The words ‘parent,’ ‘partner’ and ‘child’ are a good place to start. ‘Carer’ is also a neutral yet understandable way to refer to the primary carer of a child, who may or may not be their parent.”

Other terms such as “brothers and sisters” are also unacceptable on the grounds that it “doesn’t take into account our nonbinary friends.”

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“You might consider using ‘siblings,’ ‘friends’ or ‘children of God’ instead. Similarly, using ‘he or she’ could be exclusive; ‘they’ is also accurate and acceptable.”

The guidance, which will be updated twice a year, explained that using “inclusive language” is “key to effective ministry and mission.”

“Part of the work of being a justice-seeking Church is about recognizing and acknowledging that harm has been done to marginalized groups in the past, not just by wider society but at times by the Church itself, and that it is the Church’s responsibility to make amends for this.”

“It is crucial for our communications to be sensitive and inclusive because for such a long time, some groups have been marginalized and/or demonized by common culture.”

“The Church can lead the way in acknowledging the hurt caused to marginalized communities by living out the good news that God includes us all, whoever we are.”

Other areas in which members are urged to abide by the language of exclusivity include topics such as ageism, anti-racism, immigration status, Islamaphobia, the disabled and even slavery.

As if that isn’t enough the guide recommends that anyone looking for further resources are advised to look up a variety of far-left organizations including Stonewall, All About Trans and Racial Equity Tools.

There is nothing about these changes that are acceptable. Even acknowledging these radicals isn’t justified, but to chastise Christians and to ask them to “repent” for saying words like “husband” and “wife” or “brother and sister” is ridiculous.

If I attended this church, as of today I would be a former member of the congregation. Here is another example of normalcy being replaced with radical leftist ideology. The few are satisfied while many suffer.

Christian values are not up for debate or reinvention. This church needs to reevaluate its stance on what it is trying to do to Christian beliefs and those who practice them.