Methodist scholar may face trial over officiating at same-sex wedding

Thomas W. Ogletree, a United Methodist theologian and retired dean at Yale Divinity School, is facing a potential church trial for officiating last year at the same-sex wedding of his son.

Ogletree, 79, a Yale Divinity professor emeritus, told United Methodist News Service that as a professor, he rarely has been asked to perform weddings. When his son asked him to officiate, he said he felt “deeply moved.”

The wedding of his son, Thomas Rimbey Ogletree, to Nicholas Haddad on October 20 took place at the Yale Club in New York City. The father in a statement described the ceremony as “one of the most significant ritual acts of my life as a pastor.”