Leaders of the Evangelical Covenant Church voted to defrock a Minneapolis pastor and expel his church for permitting gay marriage.
The Rev. Dan Collison is lead pastor at First Covenant Church in Minneapolis. Leaders of the Evangelical Covenant Church voted to defrock him for permitting a staff member to officiate at a wedding of two women from the congregation.
"I feel grounded in the path we have chosen. I feel grateful for the pastors and churches who stood up for us. I feel compassion to those caught in the middle," Collison said. ECC leaders also voted Friday night to remove another pastor, Rev. Steve Armfield, a retired Michigan minister who officiated at his son's wedding to another man in Minneapolis. Armfield also was accused of violating the denomination's same-sex marriage ban.
First Covenant Church was founded by Swedish immigrants in 1874. For decades it was one of the EEC’s largest churches nationally.
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