Oh, that is wonderful news to hear about the UMC and churches in general in Texas....
I live in Seattle, and practically any mainline church up here is unbearably liberal including the United Methodist Church. I'm so thankful to know it's not like that in other parts of the country.
-penny
You should come to the central part(the red part of the electorial map) of the nation sometime we tend to be a little more conservative than you folks on the coasts. The UMC does have a clergy and national lay leadership that tends to the liberal side but there are many people in the church that have conservative views and for the most part the consevatives are able to control the liberal excesses of the others.