...sets up a possible confrontation between local and national church officials over the decision to allow the Rev. Mark Edward Williams to remain at Woodland Park United Methodist Church. "(W)e have no idea how it's going to play out," church...

...on to a church trial. Less than two months earlier, the same panel cleared Dammann's successor, the Rev. Mark Edward Williams, who declared himself "a practicing gay man" in June 2001 at the annual meeting of the denomination's Pacific...