Drew Dennis, I’m not praying for the current unity of the UMC to continue, because I’m making the case that it cannot be a true “unity of the Spirit” since it depends on the UMC scapegoating it’s LGBQ members. Historically, the UMC came together through an “institutional divorce” from the Southern Methodists who supported slavery. Before that the Methodists separated from the Anglican communion over others issues. These institutional separation are not a worse tragedy than the extreme harm done to human beings — through forced labor (slavery) and through harmful policies based on the falsehood that they are “instrinsically disordered.”