>>If your Church sect is studying this issue in any way, you’ve already lost.
UMC General Conference is every 4 years. They’ve voted to study the issue 5 times. I fear that there will not be a sixth vote to “study”. If they vote to allow gays in the clergy, then you’re right—we have lost and they will lose me.
You misunderstood me. That the discussion of whether or not to allow homosexuals to practice their sin with church affirmation is on the table, and that they're actually voting on it, means you've already lost. The fact that the UMC has already voted 5 times on this over a couple of decades means that it's a rotting corpse.