UM-Insight.net has a collection of articles you will want to see:
Methodist Slime, Scum, Sloths and Slugs by James C. Howell, senior pastor of Myers Park United Methodist Church in Charlotte, N.C. [Read his note, then take a look at some of these papers delivered last month in Dallas.]
Recommended Readings: Central and Southern Europe Study Group Process by David W. Scott, Director of Mission Theology at the General Board of Global Ministries
Principles and Particulars: "Casuistry" in the context of the UMC's "civil war." by Jack Shitama, executive director of Pecometh Camp & Retreat Ministries "If The UMC splits, every congregation and every pastor will have to decide which way they’re going to go. There will be a lot of talk about principles. I’m beginning to think it will be more helpful to focus on the particulars."
Stop calling it a choice: Biological factors drive homosexuality, by Bill Sullivan, Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Indiana University [for more from science, see the "Reason" section of this bibliography. Interestingly, articles on the study, published in Science, spin the results differently: Scientific American, for example.]