Pastor frank schaefer biography template
Frank schaefer defrocked...
Pastor frank schaefer biography template
Frank Schaefer (minister)
Not to be confused with Frank Schaeffer.
Frank Schaefer | |
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| Born | Franklyn Schaefer (1961-12-07) December 7, 1961 (age 63) |
Franklyn "Frank" Schaefer (born December 7, 1961) is a German-American author and an LGBTQ advocate.
He is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church.
Schaefer established a popular Internet site for the support of Christian educators and ministers, a forum for the discussion and exchange of resources, called Desperate Preacher's Site, in 1996.[1]
Temporary defrocking
In 2013, he was tried by a United Methodist court for officiating at his son's same-sex marriage.
He was defrocked on December 19, 2013, when he refused to uphold the Book of Discipline in its entirety, which would have meant to denounce same-sex marriage rights.[2] He was reinstated by the Northeastern Jurisdictional Committee on Appeals on June 26, 2014.
The restoration was upheld by the Judicial Council on Oct