The pastor of a United Methodist congregation in a small Pennsylvania town, Franklyn Schaefer never expected to be the center of a theological and societal debate. But after officiating at his son's marriage to another man, a church court demanded he vow to never again preside over a same-sex wedding-or he would be forced to give up his credentials as a pastor. Defrocked tells the story, in Schaefer's own words, of the events that led to the nation's largest mainline Protestant denomination stripping him of his ordination.