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Complaint filed against 36 Methodist pastors for blessing same-sex wedding
PHILADELPHIA — A complaint has been filed against 36 United Methodist ministers who blessed a same-sex wedding in Philadelphia in defiance of church law. The pastors blessed the Nov. 9 ceremony at Philadelphia’s Arch Street United Methodist Church to show support for a colleague who faced church discipline for presiding over his gay son’s wedding…
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Methodist pastor defrocked for presiding over gay son’s wedding is reinstated
PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania pastor who broke church law by presiding over his son’s same-sex wedding ceremony and then became an outspoken activist for gay rights can return to the pulpit after a United Methodist Church appeals panel on Tuesday overturned a decision to defrock him. The nine-person panel ordered the church to restore…
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Methodist pastor who officiated gay son’s wedding appeals his defrocking
LINTHICUM, Md. — A United Methodist pastor on Friday asked a church appeals panel to overturn a decision to defrock him for refusing to promise to uphold the church’s law, which bans ministers from performing same-sex marriages. Frank Schaefer of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, had his ministerial credentials stripped last year after a trial jury found …
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Defrocked Methodist pastor who officiated gay son’s wedding appeals punishment
Frank Schaefer lost his job but not his voice. Defrocked by the United Methodist Church six months ago for officiating his son’s same-sex wedding, Schaefer has gained a following among reformers who want the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination to loosen its policies on homosexuality.
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Complaint filed against retired Methodist bishop for presiding over gay wedding
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A retired United Methodist bishop who performed a wedding ceremony for two Alabama men after they were refused permission to marry in the church now faces formal complaints over the ceremony.
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Methodists drop case against retired minister who officiated gay son’s wedding
A retired United Methodist Church minister accused of breaking church law by officiating his son’s same-sex wedding had his case dropped by a New York bishop Monday, just a few months after another minister was defrocked for the same thing.
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Methodists in crisis over same-sex marriage, church law
NEW YORK — The dispute among United Methodists over recognition of same-sex couples has lapsed into a doctrinal donnybrook, pitting clergy who are presiding at gay weddings in defiance of church law against proponents of traditional marriage who are trying to stop them.
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United Methodist Church charges second clergyman for officiating gay wedding
NEW YORK — The United Methodist Church has formally charged another clergyman for presiding at the same-sex wedding of his son.
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Congregation walks out after church forces gay choir director to resign
ALEXANDRIA, Ind. — A small Methodist church in northern Indiana is divided and as much as eighty percent of the congregants have left the church after a popular gay choir director was forced to resign, and a respected church lay leader was fired for his support of the choir director.
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Calif. Methodist bishop offers job to Pa. pastor defrocked over gay son’s wedding
PHILADELPHIA — A United Methodist pastor from central Pennsylvania who was defrocked after officiating his son’s gay wedding was invited by a California Methodist bishop to serve in her region in yet another sign of a split in the nation’s largest mainline Protestant denomination.