Duke should come to Jesus and break away from the UMC like a lot of good church leaders in local Methodist churches did a few years ago. It's pretty close to what John Wesley himself did over two centuries ago when he set up leaders of Methodist societies in America, against the wishes of Anglican leaders in England.
Most Methodist denominations these days might as well be wholly owned subsidiaries of Red China.
I grew up in the United Methodist Church, with my home church having many pastors and summer interns from Duke. Our family finally left over a dozen years ago due to the liberalism steadily creeping into all nearly all facets of the church. This latest abomination is just one more sign that Methodist leaders don’t understand - or don’t want to understand - that bowing to blasphemy will only lead to further membership declines