The Phil. Inquirer art. on Frank Schaefer being suspended 30 days for performing a same-sex wedding

Schaefer, a Methodist pastor put on trial for presiding over his son’s same-sex wedding, said he expected to be defrocked at the end of that period.

If asked, he said, he would officiate over another gay marriage during his 30-day suspension.

“I am no longer willing to accept the church’s hate speeches, the church’s treatment of some people like they are second-grade Christians. We must stop harming beloved children of God in the name of Christ,” said Schaefer, pastor of Zion United Methodist Church of Iona in Lebanon County, Pa.

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