Since he first began exploring issues related to the LGBTI+ community more than two years ago, Buda United Methodist Church Minister Jim Philpott has seen the good and the bad.

There’s been blowback and “a couple of families” who decided they would rather worship somewhere else but there have also been baptisms of the children of same sex parents that didn’t draw “any terrible reaction.”

Mostly, though, his focus has been one of inclusion and support, and that m...