United Methodist ‘Supreme Court’ re-instates renegade pastor
By John Lomperis, Juicy Ecumensim blog The United Methodist Church’s “supreme court,” its Judicial Council, has just affirmed the re-instatement of Frank Schaefer, an Eastern Pennsylvania pastor who was defrocked in a church trial last year for performing a same-sex union service. This highly technical decision hinged on obscure details of church law and the…