The American Spectator carries an article produced by the right-wing Washington think tank Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD). Predictably, the Institute on Religion and Democracy, an organization backed by a lot of non-Methodist right-wingers, has plans to meddle in the business of the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference and the congregation of St. John's Church where Pastor Phoenix has been appointed. Unfortunately, IRD is likely to succeed in spreading their misinformation and prejudice about transgender persons because transgender folks are not well-understood by the general public. I refer the curious reader to my post on the subject which immediately precedes this post (below).
The Institute on Religion and Democracy has experienced a good deal of success in using the struggle for lesbian and gay equality as a "wedge issue" to divide and manipulate mainline denominations--notably the Methodists, Episcopalians and Presbyterians. IRD's backers are threatened by the perceived "liberalism" of these denominations. IRD's loyalties are more with the neoconservative political movement and "big business" than the cause of Christ. Their goals include putting a stop to Christian support for enviornmentalism and the peace movement--a clean environment and world peace are bad for business after all. (Please excuse the irony.)
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