Posted on 11/18/2013 3:24:56 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
A Pennsylvania pastor charged under United Methodist law with officiating his son's same-sex marriage is scheduled to go on trial.
The Rev. Frank Schaefer, 51, could be defrocked....
"Public opinion has changed very rapidly," said the pastor's son....
...Schaefer could have avoided a trial if he had agreed never again to perform a same-gender wedding, but he declined because three of his four children are gay.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.chron.com ...
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A show wedding. Meant to get him defrocked. Then he’ll just move on to a sodomite denomination who’ll welcome him with open arms. The purpose being is to follow the Alinsky model to chip away at what is good and right.
Wow. Just, wow. I sure the good pastor had a good time "rearing" his children. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the only child who is not gay happens to be the only child who is female...
three out of four of his children
Threat to redemption, they are.
Repeat after me, a man does not have sex with his aunt, she is his aunt. And a man does not have sex with a man, he is to be a redeeming neighbor.
Not really his but satan’s children. Liberals love to abuse terms.
People who take fun so seriously as to bond it in such contracts which impersonate and redefine the term marriage are a danger to society much like a pitbul fixated on a toy bone... very feral, unsubmissive and dangerous.
75% of my children are queer.
How did a faggot man have children and where's mama ?
This story is just ... I don't know ... is the world THIS crazy ?
He’ll open his own little church & make his own rules.
Jesus is weeping.
He’ll open his own little church & make his own rules.
Jesus is weeping.
plenty of established churches that have gone over to the dark side....from Episcopalian on down....
And they try to claim this isn't learned behavior.
Methodists have given their ordained ministers a wide latitude of beliefs since WWI. But since their seminaries have become so liberal, you get a minister like the one who trained Hillary Clinton.
Methodists very specifically did not ordain women as elders until after about 1955 or 1960. Since then, the whole denomination has become left-handed. IMHO
Three of his children are gay. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, I would bet this preacher is a Fudge packer too.
Notice that it is all about him. Not about his church, his congregation or even the denomination which pays his salary.
Typical leftard.
And they try to claim this isn't learned behavior.
Having that large a percentage of homosexual (not "gay"; "queer" works, though) children sounds extremely odd. I hope we get a poster who can address that possibility occurring. I, for one, have never heard of such a thing. Learned behavior certainly does seem the answer, though.
Actually, our standards in the area of homosexuality have been written down and are strict. They say that homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching and that homosexuals are not to be ordained and that homosexual weddings are not to be performed in our churches.
This is what the conservative wing of the church has won on maintaining for years now, and this is what the admission of the African churches to full voting rights will make extremely difficult for the liberals to change. Last quadrennium they tried an end around to have each national church become their own rule-making organization, but that, too, was defeated.
So, while I readily admit that our seminaries are infected with gross liberalism, I'll also point out that Asbury Seminary, a general Methodist seminary but acceptable to our denomination, has remained biblical, and I'll also point out that a rebellion of sorts has taken place at United Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, and that it has rejected its liberal past and is returning to a more biblical position.
Those who know of these struggles should pray for the conservatives in the United Methodist Church. They are showing progress on some significant fronts.
When did he “teach” them? When they were little and impressionable? Wouldn’t that make him a pedophile?
One of our pastors attended a gay wedding......the wedding of her ex-husband.
That’s two wrongs right there!
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