SEMINARY OUSTS PRESIDENT FOR PERFORMING DAUGHTER'S GAY WEDDING: From the Associated Press

The New Brunswick Theological Seminary has ousted its president and reprimanded him for officiating at his gay daughter's wedding.

The school's board of trustees said the Rev. Norman Kansfield, 64, performed the ceremony in Massachusetts.

"We decided that the president had put the seminary in an awkward position by performing that ceremony without giving us the benefit of offering sufficient counsel," the Rev. Larry Williams Sr., a member speaking on the board's behalf, told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Friday's newspapers. "It could have hurt the school if it divided people in our student body, if it divided our faculty, if it divided other people who support us."

In a letter sent shortly before the June 19 wedding of his daughter, Anne, Kansfield informed the board of his decision to officiate, and said he wasn't seeking its permission. The board voted Jan. 28 not to renew Kansfield's contract.

Kansfield said he had not done anything to hurt his denomination, the Reformed Church of America. ...

But the denomination's national office in Grand Rapids, Mich., said formal complaints have been filed against Kansfield, who expects to be brought up on charges in June at the church's General Synod in Schenectady, N.Y.

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