Ben Nelson, Senator from Nebraska, nominally a Democrat is pro-life and Methodist. I am visiting my 91 year old aunt in Nebraska and have been bombarded by TV ads from both pro-Ben and anti-Ben groups. Every ad urges us to call Senator Nelson and... which must be working because all his voicemail boxes are full.
I started to google Ben Nelson to get a handle on why he thought he was a Democrat and why he was so against health care reform. I fully expected to find that he was a Catholic. I was surprized to discover that Ben Nelson is a Methodist. I spent my first 20 odd years as a Methodist. (I am now at 62, to borrow a phrase from Karin Armstrong, "a free lance monotheist")
The Methodist church, in the person of the Rev. Cynthia Abrams, issued an email to Nebraska Methodists that clarifies the Methodist Church's position on both abortion and health care reform. Keep reading...
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