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Defrocked: How A Father's Act of Love Shook the United Methodist Church
Defrocked How A Father's Act of Love Shook the United Methodist Church Author:Frank Schaefer, Sherri Wood Emmons In Defrocked, Frank Schaefer tells the story of officiating at his son's same-sex marriage and, six years later, his subsequent trial by a United Methodist court. That trial stripped Schaefer of his ordination after more than 20 years of ministry in the nation's largest mainline Protestant denomination.