Defrocked: How a Father's Act of Love Shook the United Methodist Church Buildings author of The Last Story

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Defrocked: How a Father's Act of Love Shook the United Methodist Church Buildings author of The Last StoryIn 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.