{"id":342,"date":"2013-12-19T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/12\/methodist-minister-defrocked-officiated-gay-wedding.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T16:39:19","slug":"methodist-minister-defrocked-officiated-gay-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/12\/methodist-minister-defrocked-officiated-gay-wedding.html","title":{"rendered":"Methodist Minister Defrocked; Officiated Gay Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<\/p><div style=\"font-size: x-small; margin-top: 0; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p>Were Methodist church authorities right to defrock a pastor who officiated a gay wedding (his son\u2019s)?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s exactly what happened this week. \u00a0The church told \u00a0Rev. Frank Schaefer of Pennsylvania that if he could not follow the Book of Discipline, he should resign. \u00a0 He did not, so the church defrocked him this week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/12\/19\/255521499\/methodist-minister-defrocked-for-officiating-at-gay-wedding?ft=1&f=1016\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">NPR\u2019s The Two Way<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/methodist-minister-defrocked-officiating-son-gay-wedding-article-1.1552912\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Daily News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/20\/us\/methodist-pastor-defrocked-over-gay-marriage-service.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were Methodist church authorities right to defrock a pastor who officiated a gay wedding (his son\u2019s)? That\u2019s exactly what happened this week. \u00a0The church told \u00a0Rev. Frank Schaefer of Pennsylvania that if he could not follow the Book of Discipline, he should resign. \u00a0 He did not, so the church defrocked him this week. NPR\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":3107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Methodist Minister Defrocked; Officiated Gay Wedding<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Were Methodist church authorities right to defrock a pastor who officiated a gay wedding (his son's)? 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