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theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts) Mon Oct 27, 2014, 10:39 PM Oct 2014

Pastor Who Performed Gay Marriage Keeps Ordination

Great news!!!

abc News
Pastor Who Performed Gay Marriage Keeps Ordination
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Oct 27, 2014, 4:28 PM ET
By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press

A Methodist pastor who was disciplined after he officiated at the wedding of his gay son will be allowed to remain an ordained minister.

The Judicial Council of the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination ruled Monday that a Pennsylvania church jury was wrong to defrock Frank Schaefer last year after he would not promise never to perform another same-sex wedding.

The council ruled on technical grounds and did not express support for gay marriage in general. Its decision is final.

Reached by phone after the decision, Schaefer called it "amazing."....

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