Yes, I agree. I was just commenting on lumping all United Methodists together. Despite common opinion, we have not (yet) permitted homosexual ordination, homosexual marriage, or the like and we consider it ‘incompatible with Christian teaching’.
We’re wrong on abortion, but we had trended in the right direction for about the last 2 decades. Still not out of the woods.
The BIG convention for the UMC is this May. It will make or break this church. It is both the best and the last chance for the liberals to win on their homosexual agenda. After this, the general conference will be seriously affected by the huge growth of the African churches who are almost uniformly conservative.
Maybe on paper, but not in reality. The local Methodist Church in my town had a lesbian pastor who brought her 'partner' with her from the east coast.