Defrocked Pastor Talks About Gay Rights

Religious leaders and congregations grapple with LGBT issues everyday. Few leaders have evolved more in their thinking than the Rev. Frank Schaefer, a United Methodist pastor in Pennsylvania.  He was defrocked last year when he performed the wedding ceremony for his son’s marriage to another man.

Schaefer talks to the Washington Post in the video above about his evolution in thinking about gay rights. He’s now a major voice for equality in the Methodist Church, but he was not always so liberal.