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United Methodist church officials defrocked a US pastor on Thursday who officiated his son s gay wedding. HT Image The Rev Frank Schaefer, of Pennsylvania, had already been suspended when he met with church officials to determine whether he would continue as a pastor. Schaefer had been told to resign from the clergy by Thursday if he could not follow the denomination s Book of Discipline. But Schaefer has said the book discriminates against gay people and vowed this week that he would not voluntarily surrender his credentials. Church spokesman John Coleman said that officials decided to defrock him. Schaefer left the short meeting with church officials without commenting but planned to address the matter later Thursday. Earlier this week, S <a href=https://www.stanley-cup.co.nz>stanley cup chaefer said he would defy the religious order to surrender his credentials for performing the same-sex wedding. I am actively committing to having those discriminatory laws changed and banished from our Book of Discipline, Schaefer said. That s the only way I can reconcile being a United Methodist at this p stanley cup oint. Schaefer was serving a 30-day suspension for officiating the 2007 wedding of his gay son in Massachusetts, where same-sex unions are legal. Although the Methodist church accepts gay and lesbian members, it rejects the stanley cup practice of homosexuality as incompatible with Christian teaching. Jurors who convicted Schaefer in a church trial last month said he should use the suspension time to decide whether he coul Mjhe US media asks if India-Pakistan talks can survive Pune bombing
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A virus attack on French military computers has grounded the nations naval fighter planes after pilots failed to download their flight plans, media reports said. HT Image According to the Liberation newspaper, the virus infected the Navys flight databases and Rafale aircraft were nailed to the ground on January 15 and 16 because they were unable to download their flight plans . Though Microsoft had warned several months back that the Conficker virus, transmitted through Windows, was attacking computers, media reports claimed the French military ignored the warning and failed to take the necessary measures, British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph reported. However, the French Navy has admitted that during the time it took to eradicate the virus, it had to return to more traditional forms of communication 鈥?telephone, fax and post. It a <a href=https://www.nike-dunks.de>nike dunk ffected exchanges of information but no information was lost. It was a security problem we had already simulated. We cut the co stanley cup mmunication links that could have transmitted the virus and 99 per cent of the network adidas samba is safe, Navy spokesman J茅rome Erulin told Ouest France newspaper. In fact, the virus attacked the non-secured internal French navy network called Intramar and was detected on January 21. The whole network was affected and military staff were instructed not to start their computers. According to the Liberation, two days later the chiefs of staff decided to isolate Intramar from militarys other computer systems, but ce

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