Rev Thomas Ogletree
A retired pastor could face a canonical trial after it was found out that he officiated his son’s wedding to his partner.
The Pastor Thomas Ogletree, a Frederick Marquand Professor Emeritus of Theological Ethics and one of the authors of United Methodist’s Book of Discipline, has been called out by leading Methodist pastors for willfully disregarding church law and confusing the principals for which it stands by choosing which laws to follow.
But Ogletree claims he was not randomly picking which laws to choose, but choosing to defy a law that he felt was in conflict with one of the UMC’s core teachings.
He is a retired pastor who did not spend much time behind the pulpit preaching the gospel once he began his academic career in earnest.
Also He was one of the principal drafters of the current United Methodist Disciplinary statement on doctrinal standards and knows firsthand the message of acceptance and inclusion the United Methodist’s followers adhere to.
