1.   Most are expected to be dominated by questions about blessing same-sex unions and ordaining sexually active gays and lesbians to the ministry.

2.   Most meetings are expected to be dominated by questions about blessing same-sex unions and ordaining sexually active gays and lesbians to the ministry.

3.   Of all the issues surrounding homosexuality, ordination of sexually active gays and lesbians to the Christian ministry may be one of the most inflammatory.

4.   The statement also opposes church blessings of same-sex unions and the ordination of sexually active gays as priests.

5.   The church will accept celibate homosexuals within its ranks but will not permit the ordination of sexually active gays and lesbians, he said.

6.   United Methodist Church leaders in May reaffirmed their opposition to homosexuality, the ordination of sexually active gays and consecrating same-sex unions.