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Quote of the Day: United Methodist theologian Thomas Ogletree

Ron Ribiat

“I actually wasn’t thinking of this as an act of civil disobedience or church disobedience. I was thinking of it as a response to my son.”

— The Rev. Thomas Ogletree, a United Methodist theologian and former dean of Yale Divinity School, who is facing church charges for presiding at the same-sex wedding of his son. He was quoted by The New York Times.

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