So that's where the devil resides:
"Methodist Church defrocks minister who officiated at gay wedding in Hull" by Lisa Wangsness | Globe Staff, December 20, 2013
United Methodist Church officials defrocked Thursday the pastor who was convicted in a church trial last month for performing the marriage ceremony of his gay son in Hull six years ago.
The Rev. Frank Schaefer, pastor of a church in Lebanon, Pa., was stripped of his credentials after meeting with the Board of Ordained Ministry for the church’s Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.
In its decision last month, the jury convicted Schaefer of violating church rules prohibiting gay marriage and suspended him for 30 days, saying he should take that time to decide whether, in the future, he could uphold the church’s rules in their entirety.
Schaefer decided he could not, because he feels church laws are contradictory — on the one hand promising inclusivity and equal ministry to all and on the other discriminating against gay people — and because he felt called by God to advocate for gay people.
Hey, we are all called to do something. How the f*** do you think I ended up preaching here? Someone keeps calling me back because I don't want to do this anymore.
But he said that, up until the moment of the board’s decision Thursday, he had hoped he could avoid the ultimate punishment....
Next stop: Hell
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Globe did me a favor because I can now toss the clippings I had lying around regarding this who-gives-a-fuck article?
Related: New Mexico’s high court OK’s same-sex marriage
I'm sure that has also received outsized coverage in my agenda-pusher, and my intent was to show you how many articles I had seen over a certain time frame, but one is getting the feeling another batch of clippings will be making the recycling bag.
Fuck this.
