Our world does not have enough Tom Ogletrees

A note from Dean Greg Sterling:

“Last October Tom Ogletree performed a same-sex wedding ceremony for his son at the Yale Club in New York City. Some have seized upon the gracious response of a father to a son’s request and made an ecclesiastical case out of it. Efforts to turn the act of a loving father into an act of ecclesiastical disobedience only make Christianity appear to be loveless. Tom is a man of faith and principle. As a colleague and Christian, I want to express my full support for him. Our world does not have enough Tom Ogletrees.”

Gregory E. Sterling
The Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean of Yale Divinity School
and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament

Thomas W. Ogletree, Frederick Marquand Professor Emeritus of Theological and Social Ethics, and former dean, is facing charges that he violated ecclesiastical rules of the United Methodist Church. Read more from the New York Times. Ogletree issued a response in a Washington Post blog post.