Listening to a youth choir from Highland Park, Dallas Texas, I found wonderful symbolism and hope in their rendition of a familiar spiritual.  They sang: 

Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel.
Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel, then why not every man.

He delivered Daniel from the lion’s den,
Jonah from the belly of the whale.
And the Hebrew children from the fiery furnace,
then why not every man. 

United Methodists like saying the church is characterized by OPEN HEARTS-OPEN MINDS-OPEN DOORS.  The question is,  Why not everyone?  All United Methodist churches except Reconciling Congregations exclude same sex couples from full participation in the blessing and joy of a church wedding; and Methodist ministers run the risk of ecclesiastical trial if they officiate in weddings of same-sex couples even if the weddings take place outside the church.