To Hull with it:
"Defrocked Methodist pastor appealing punishment" by Michael Rubinkam | Associated Press June 19, 2014
Defrocked by the United Methodist Church six months ago for officiating at his son’s same-sex wedding, Schaefer has gained a following among those who want the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination to loosen its policies on homosexuality.
He’s told his story dozens of times to largely sympathetic audiences around the country: How his son came out to him as a teenager who had contemplated suicide. How he hid the 2007 wedding from his conservative Pennsylvania congregation, fearing it would sow division. How he finally decided — in the midst of his high-profile church trial last fall — to become an outspoken advocate for gay rights at a time when his denomination is bitterly divided over the issue.
After his trial and conviction, ‘‘I thought I had lost everything,’’ recalled Schaefer, 52. ‘‘There was a moment of pain and depression and the next thing I knew, I was catapulted. I have more opportunities now than I ever did.’’
Except the right to call himself a Methodist minister....
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He's become the "public face of the movement to change church policy on homosexuals."
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