Decatur United Methodist Church and the Sons of Confederate Veterans, collusion?

The First United Methodist Church of Decatur had on their web page www.decaturmethodist.org a listing for the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) in their calendar.  Sometime between the Jan. 7, 2014 Google Cache snap shot and today 3/1/2014 the SCV regular meeting disappeared from their schedule.

As of today 3/1/2014 the listing is still in the Google cache. It won't be there for long.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:97_kwvCmz1wJ:www.decaturmethodist.org/templates/System/details.asp%3Fid%3D58517%26PG%3DEvents%26CID%3D1347159%26rDate%3D2014-01-14+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

However, the calendar with the listing of the SCV is at www.archive.org.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131219084143/http://decaturmethodist.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=58517&PG=events&RecordType=&pkg=

You will have to wait a bit while it loads.

It seems that the First United Methodist Church of Decatur is covering up the fact that they let the SCV use the Wesley Center.

The First United Methodist Church of Decatur has been careless and hasn't entirely covered its tracks.
http://www.decaturmethodist.org/clientimages/58517/building%20use%20guidelines.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20140301200024/http://www.decaturmethodist.org/clientimages/58517/building%20use%20guidelines.pdf

The SCV is still listing the First United Methodist Church of Decatur as a meeting place.

http://www.asjcampscv983.org/history.htm

http://www.asjcampscv983.org/news.htm

I had contacted the First United Methodist Church of Decatur and had blogged on the issue also.

http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2014/01/first-united-methodist-church-of.html#.UxI4l_ldWSo

Evidently the response was to hide the enabling of the SCV. It might be asked whether the church did stop hosting the SCV. If they did, I think they would tell me and the local SCV camp would be listing a new meeting place.

The documentation of the campaign to get churches to not enable neo-Confederate groups is online at www.templeofdemocracy.com/churchesoftheconfederacy.htm.

John Wesley's book "Thoughts on Slavery" is available online free at Google Books

Google books has John Wesley's book, "Thoughts on Slavery."


http://books.google.com/books?id=iTdcAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=thoughts+on+slavery&hl=en&sa=X&ei=x6raUufkKYnOsAS1rYCIDQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=thoughts%20on%20slavery&f=false

In reading it you will soon figure out that the symbol "f" is used for the "s" sound. For example speaking is spelled "fpeaking."

I put this link in this blog and will do elsewhere as a benefit for the United Methodist Church who seems to have forgotten the anti-slavery views of John Wesley.

First United Methodist Church of Decatur hosts regularly Sons of Confederate Veteran meetings

What is ironic is that the Sons of Confederate Veterans meet in the Wesley Center at the First United Methodist Church of Decatur, Texas.

John Wesley an early Methodist leader was also against slavery.

http://abolition.e2bn.org/people_32.html

From this website about John Wesley's abolitionism:

The focus that Wesley needed came when Granville Sharp contested the case of a runaway slave (James Somerset) in the courts. Wesley was moved to study a text by the Philadelphia Quaker, Anthony Benezet. Wesley's journal shows that Benezet's work, and Lord Mansfield's deliberations in the case of Somerset, caused him much disquiet.

Two years later, in 1774, he wrote a tract called "Thoughts on Slavery" that went into four editions in two years. In it, he attacked the Slave Trade and the slave-trader with considerable passion and proposed a boycott of slave-produced sugar and rum.

Yet this church hosts monthly the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). Allowing the SCV to meet at their church in a center named after Wesley makes a mockery of Wesley and also makes a person wonder if the First United Methodist Church of Decatur really has any understanding of the life of John Wesley.

This meeting is listed on the church calendar and it is no secret to the parishioners. Are they insensible to reflective thought?

http://www.decaturmethodist.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=58517&PG=Events&CID=1347159&rDate=2014-01-14