Can you imagine now a Gay Minister walking to the pulpit with his current sexual partner and seating him in the front row?..... What a slap in the face to God, Christ and any true believers the church manages to salvage from this ruling. In my opinion a true Christian would no longer attend their and go to another church. Otherwise by staying they are supporting and enabling the next group of sexual deviates to march in...pedifiles, cross dressers, and the like...you can be sure that they will be next in line.
I have witnessed this behavior in several Methodist churches since the 90s, including the wearing of a rainbow stole and changing the liturgy to "Father/Mother God" and similar crapola. I left the UMC in the early 00s, not long after my Methodist pastors "were too busy" to create a prayer service for 9/12/01, in spite of one of our congregant's having lost a family member in the Towers on 9/11. Our home-church prayer group created one instead, got permission to use the sanctuary, and attracted hundreds of new people to the church -- but the pastor wouldn't allow us to use the copier for additional programs. Soon thereafter, he escorted the MYF (youth fellowship) to a mosque for a nice visit.
After leaving the church of five generations of my family, I wandered "in the desert" for many years, surviving on completely independent home-church prayer groups.
Recently, I was led by the Spirit to a Reformed Episcopal church. It uses the same liturgy we used in the Methodist Episcopal Church up until the late 60s (when, after the merger with several other denominations, the "United Methodist Church" became hippified). Its traditional Anglican practices and liturgy convey a large variety of basic Christian beliefs that were suppressed or eliminated by so-called United Methodism since the 60s, such as frequent communion, confession of sins, use of the Nicene and the Athanasian Creed (a long-form affirmation of faith that includes a full description of the nature of the Trinity), et cetera. There is a long sermon that does not contain Methodist-Lite cutesie anecdotes about the pastor's childhood, but that instead illuminate the scriptures, as well as the character of the converted Christian.
Praise God!