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Pa. pastor suspended for performing gay wedding says he’ll be ‘outspoken advocate’ for LGBT - The Washington Post
back up links:
Minister who married gay son becoming gay rights activist - CBS News
Pastor Frank Schaefer gets 30-day suspension for officiating gay son
Pa. Pastor Who Performed Gay Wedding Suspended | TIME.com
Pastor who married gay son suspended--with a catch | MSNBC
Gay Marriage Pastor Suspended For 30 Days - Philadelphia News, Weather and Sports from WTXF FOX 29
Pa. Methodist pastor convicted under church law of officiating gay wedding suspended 30 days - The Washington Post
AWESOME!!!!!
good for pastor Frank Schaefer for standing up for his son and what he believes is right.
Also be clear, i also FULLY support the church's right to suspend him etc. That is their right and thier choice, they are free and clear to make it.
SPRING CITY, Pa. — Frank Schaefer gets to keep calling himself a Methodist pastor — at least for the next 30 days.
The United Methodist clergyman convicted of breaking church law for officiating at his son’s same-sex wedding was suspended late Tuesday, and ordered by a jury of his fellow pastors to surrender his credentials in a month if he can’t bring himself to adhere to the laws of the church’s Book of Discipline.
Schaefer said he had no intention of changing his mind about the church’s teaching on homosexuality, declaring he would perform more gay marriages if asked.
“I feel I have to be an advocate, an outspoken advocate for all lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual people,” Schaefer told reporters after learning his sentence, adding that he expects to be defrocked when his 30-day suspension is up.
Before the punishment was announced, Schaefer, who was convicted for presiding over his son’s 2007 wedding ceremony in Massachusetts, told the jury that he is unrepentant.
Rather than beg for mercy, the pastor upped the stakes.
The church “needs to stop judging people based on their sexual orientation,” he told jurors. “We have to stop the hate speech. We have to stop treating them as second-class Christians.”
back up links:
Minister who married gay son becoming gay rights activist - CBS News
Pastor Frank Schaefer gets 30-day suspension for officiating gay son
Pa. Pastor Who Performed Gay Wedding Suspended | TIME.com
Pastor who married gay son suspended--with a catch | MSNBC
Gay Marriage Pastor Suspended For 30 Days - Philadelphia News, Weather and Sports from WTXF FOX 29
Pa. Methodist pastor convicted under church law of officiating gay wedding suspended 30 days - The Washington Post
AWESOME!!!!!
good for pastor Frank Schaefer for standing up for his son and what he believes is right.
Also be clear, i also FULLY support the church's right to suspend him etc. That is their right and thier choice, they are free and clear to make it.