[Breitbart] The number of homeless Americans rose by 12 percent to a record level in 2023 as President Joe Biden invited several million legal and illegal migrants into homes and jobs.
“More than 650,000 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2023, a 12% increase from 2022,” a Friday report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said.
The data is 11 months old, suggesting that the current homeless number is far higher.
The number is 70,000 above the 554,000 homeless in January 2020 under President Donald Trump’s lower-migration policies. It matches the 2005 homeless population under President George W. Bush’s pro-migration policies, when media coverage of the homeless is sue was one-third greater.
The 2023 number was boosted by a large number of Americans who could not afford housing in Biden’s high-migration economy. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reported on Friday, December 15:
HUD data indicates that the rise in overall homelessness is largely due to a sharp rise in the number of people who became homeless for the first time. Between federal fiscal years 2021 and 2022, the number of people who became newly homeless increased by 25%.
“The most significant causes are … the high cost of housing that have left many Americans living paycheck to paycheck and one crisis away from homelessness,” Jeff Olivet, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, told the Associated Press (AP).
[AP] The United Methodist Church has been undergoing a major upheaval as more than 7,000 congregations across the country, one quarter of the total, decided whether to leave the denomination or remain United Methodist. This splintering resulted from a long-simmering debate over theological differences and the role of LGBTQ people in the church.
WHY IS THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH SPLINTERING?
For decades, the denomination has been mired in intractable debates over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the church. The UMC bans same-sex marriage and openly LGBTQ clergy.
But amid increased defiance of those bans in many U.S. churches, several conservatives decided to launch the separate Global Methodist Church. Progressives who remain in the UMC are expected to advocate for removing the bans at the denomination’s next General Conference, in the spring of 2024.
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Had family that build the original Methodist Church off of Tobacco Rd in Gracewood Ga. and they were church members there for 60++ years. When it went UNITED and quickly started adopting social agendas and not following the bible. They moved to other churches. Yes! Even Southern Baptist ☺.
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In this day an age there is no reason for controversy. Just see up an AI to mimic the thinking of John Wesley and let him/it make the call.
Safety Note - do this offline where the AI will not be able to hack and launch nukes.
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12/18/2023 9:05 Comments ||
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Just remember, all they want is for you to tolerate them forcing you to be just like them.
Because diversity.
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As usual, the AP has no clue at all as to why people are leaving.
The UMC did indeed affirm solid Biblical understanding of human sexuality. But several conferences have openly defied it and have not been disciplined. So the words and the actions diverge. This is the usual definition of hypocrisy. And who wants to be part of a denomination that invites accusations of hypocrisy because they actually are hypocrites?
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12/18/2023 11:47 Comments ||
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It's one thing to be tolerant but it's quite another to let them destroy the church and that's really all they want.
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No soup for them.
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"and remove the malign influence of UN-sponsored educational systems that actively promote the agenda that led to the savagery of October 7th and before."
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