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Frank Schaefer on Monday of breaking his vows told him he must surrender his credentials if he can't reconcile his new calling to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community with the laws from the church's Book of Discipline.\u003cbr/\u003e   Schaefer told reporters afterward that he had no intention of changing his mind and said he expects to lose his credentials in 30 days.\u003cbr/\u003e   Before the punishment was announced, Schaefer, who was convicted for officiating at his son's 2007 wedding ceremony in Massachusetts, told the jury Tuesday that he is unrepentant and refused to promise he wouldn't perform more gay unions.\u003cbr/\u003e   Rather than beg for mercy, the pastor upped the stakes.\u003cbr/\u003e   The church \"needs to stop judging people based on their sexual orientation,\" he told jurors. \"We have to stop the hate speech. We have to stop treating them as second-class Christians.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   After the jury pronounced its sentence, Schaefer's supporters began overturning chairs in the courtroom _ symbolizing the biblical story of Jesus overturning the tables of the money changers _ and held an impromptu communion service.\u003cbr/\u003e   Schaefer's trial rekindled debate within the nation's largest mainline Protestant denomination over church policies on homosexuality and same-sex marriage. The denomination accepts gay and lesbian members, but it rejects the practice of homosexuality as \"incompatible with Christian teaching.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   Schaefer donned a rainbow-colored stole on the witness stand and told jurors it symbolized his commitment to the cause.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"I will never be silent again,\" he said, as some of his supporters wept in the gallery. \"This is what I have to do.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   Jon Boger, who filed the initial complaint against Schaefer, was outraged by the pastor's recalcitrance. The career Naval officer grew up in Zion United Methodist Church of Iona, the church that Schaefer has led for 11 years.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"Frank Schaefer sat here and openly rebuked the United Methodist Church, its policies, standards and doctrines,\" Bolger said when called as a rebuttal witness. \"He should no longer be in service as a minister of the United Methodist Church, not at Iona, not anywhere else.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   Earlier Tuesday, the Methodists' prosecutor called former members of Schaefer's church who said his conduct split the congregation, and experts who said the punishment should serve as a deterrent to other like-minded clergy.\u003cbr/\u003e   Christina Watson said her family left Schaefer's church because they no longer wanted to be \"subjected to the preaching and teaching\" of Schaefer.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"To me, it wasn't a good Christian example for ministers to say it's OK to break the rules of your church,\" she testified.\u003cbr/\u003e   The Rev. Paul Stallworth, who leads a United Methodist task force on sexuality and abortion, testified that church law requires jurors to \"openly rebuke\" Schaefer so that fellow clergy will think twice before breaking it.\u003cbr/\u003e   Schaefer had previously testified that he performed his son's 2007 wedding out of love, not a desire to flout church teaching on homosexuality.\u003cbr/\u003e   But Tuesday's testimony made clear he has had a change of heart.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"I have to minister to those who hurt and that's what I'm doing,\" said Schaefer.\u003cbr/\u003e   The prosecutor, the Rev. Christopher Fisher, invited Schaefer to \"repent of your actions\" and pledge never again to perform a homosexual union.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"I cannot,\" Schaefer replied.\u003cbr/\u003e   His son, Tim Schaefer, told jurors he knew he was putting his father in a difficult position by asking him to officiate his wedding. But he concluded he would hurt his father's feelings if he didn't ask.\u003cbr/\u003e   Schaefer said he hoped his father's trial would start a larger conversation in the denomination.\u003cbr/\u003eSpring City, Pennsylvania - 20 November, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide, Rev. Frank Schaefer enters press conference\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Rev. Frank Schaefer, Officiated at Son's Gay Wedding\u003cbr/\u003e\" I'm grateful that I'm Revered Frank Schaefer, it's still there. When I addressed the jury tonight I gave them every excuse in the book to defrock me immediately. But that did not happen. Now I'm still wondering what it means, the conditions they've set. But I told them clearly that I can no longer be a silent supporter but that now I feel I have to be an advocate, an outspoken advocate for all lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual people.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Rev. Frank Schaefer, Officiated at Son's Gay Wedding\u003cbr/\u003e\"We must stop harming the loving children of God in the name of Christ. That is not what Christ asked us to do. He asked us to love our neighbor, he asked us to love and care for our neighbor, that's what I'm here to do. I am not willing to refuse ministry to anybody.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Rev. Frank Schaefer, Officiated at Son's Gay Wedding\u003cbr/\u003e\"If a gay couple asked me in the next 30 days, if somebody made up their minds and wanted me to do their wedding, and there's a good reason for it, if they qualify just like anybody else, yes, I would do it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Rev. Frank Schaefer, Officiated at Son's Gay Wedding\u003cbr/\u003e\"No where in the bible does it prohibit a loving and committed homosexual relationship.\" \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Rev. Frank Schaefer, Officiated at Son's Gay Wedding\u003cbr/\u003e\"I do love the church and it would be a tremendous loss. What it means is that it could have been a different ruling tonight that would have led to a path of healing, there is a diversity of opinions in the Methodist church and that was not acknowledged tonight in this ruling.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Michele Bartlow, Methodist Spokeswoman\u003cbr/\u003e\"They were faced with a difficult task, and we do trust that they listened to the evidence that was presented and considered it carefully in order to make the best judgement they could.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide, Schaefer with other parishoners singing\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid, Schaefer singing\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid, Schaefer with cup\u003cbr/\u003e11. 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