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Love Trumped Rules for Fired Methodist Rev. Frank Schaefer

Fired Pastor

The Methodist minister stripped of his credentials for officiating at his gay son’s wedding is in the good company of many people who broke rules to bring about a more loving church.

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Love trumps rules. Living, breathing, loving people know that. Institutions often don’t.

On Thursday, Rev. Frank Schaefer, the Methodist minister who officiated at the wedding of his gay son in 2007, was stripped

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