Ministers Back Colleague at Pa. Same-Sex Ceremony About 50 ministers are giving their symbolic support to a colleague facing sanctions from the United Methodist Church by participating in a same-sex wedding ceremony. The wedding in Philadelphia on Saturday was held about a week before the Rev. Frank Schaefer of Lebanon faces a church trial for officiating over his son's marriage to another man. The Philadelphia Inquirer says (http://bit.ly/16SXVdw) the clergy filled the front of a Methodist church in the city Saturday, blessing the marriage in defiance of church law. A spokesman for the church's eastern Pennsylvania conference isn't commenting about whether any of the participants may face discipline. Most of the 50 are Methodist ministers.