The Blaze, by Phil Shiver: Isaac Simmons, a United Methodist Church candidate for ordination and associate pastor at Hope UMC in Bloomington, Illinois, recently spewed blasphemy in a new slam poem ode to the LGBTQ+ movement.
The drag queen pastor and self-styled “drag-evangelist” who goes by the stage name, Ms. Penny Cost, declared over and over again that “God is nothing,” “the Bible is nothing,” and “religion is nothing” in the profanity-laced video posted on his website.
Yet while the God of historic Christianity is but a farce, according to Simmons — who repeatedly refers to the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as female — queer spirituality and LGBTQ+ identity are, in fact, the true expression of divinity.
“God is nothing, but if she were, she would be yes, queen-ing her way down the runways of Paris and Montreal, strutting between that tightrope pulled taught between absurdity and opulence, balancing between too much and never enough,” he proclaims. “Nothing, but if she were, she would be a seamstress of divine couture, weaving together string theory and self portraits to form the fiercest gowns of queer existence.”
“God is nothing but a drag queen with a microphone of biblical f***ing proportions,” he adds.
“Out of a closet of darkness, from under a shroud of secrecy came the beauty of humanity, humanity made in the gender-bending, identity-breaking, system-shaking image of God, the imago Dei,” he declares. “From Adam and Steve to you and to me.”
Simmons then turns his attention to the “f***ed up theology of toxic masculinity and the s***y ideals of the oppressive regime” and “Christian terrorists who wield their flappable doctrine to inflict harm on God’s queerly-anointed creation.”
The Bible, God, and religion “must be nothing,” he concludes, unless we wield it into something.”
In the caption of the video, Simmons dedicates his performance to so-called deconstructionists, non-literalists, and queer spiritualists, and claims his message is “directed to those who actively and passively cause harm against the LGBTQIA2S+ Community due to their understandings of Scripture.”
Amazingly, despite his clear denial of and hatred for the basic tenets of Christianity, the United Methodist Church has certified Simmons as a candidate for ministry. At Hope UMC, where Simmons currently serves, the proudly queer pastor has hosted “drag queen Sundays,” which he describes as “basically just a church service that just happened to be performed in drag.”
Simmons has become a lightning rod amid a years-long clash over LGBTQ+ issues within the United Methodist Church. Earlier this year, the Global Methodist Church — a more conservative Methodist denomination that holds to a traditional view of marriage and opposes ordaining LGBT clergy — announced it would formally split from the denomination.
Simmons discussed in more detail his efforts to merge drag and spirituality in an interview with UMC, posted below.
Prophetic Link:
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.” Romans 1:28-31
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William Stroud
Friday April 21st, 2023 at 10:53 PMSome mentally ill person seekin his 15 minutes of fame. For us to have the right to free speech we must tolerate people like this. He is a soldier of the opposing force, that fights against Christ and we must engage that force in battle. “For the weapons of our warfare are not [a]carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds” 2 Corinthians 10:4. We mush be prepared with the whole armor of God, loins girt with the belt of truth, breastplate of righteousness, shoes with the preparation of the gospel of peace, shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit which is the Word of God. Fortunately we know the outcome of this great battle. They are as good as defeated right now.
Will F.
Saturday April 22nd, 2023 at 02:00 AMIn Revelation 14:8, The Word says “And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen…”
I may be wrong, but the fact that is says ‘fallen’ TWICE tells me that not only has Rome fallen, but apostate Protestantism too. The prostitute is followed by her daughters!
This news confirms my assessment and is why I stopped attending 1st-day churches three decades ago. Thank God that He showed me who His people are, and why we are called THE REMNANT.