(AP) — A Methodist pastor who became a gay rights activist after he was disciplined for officiating at his son's wedding to another man will soon find out whether he can remain an ordained minister in the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination. The Rev. Frank Schaefer was suspended and then defrocked last year following a church trial in southeastern Pennsylvania when he would not promise to uphold the Methodist law book, which bans clergy from performing same-sex marriages. [...] Schaefer has been traveling the country giving talks and sermons on gay acceptance. While Schaefer is not the only Methodist minister to face church discipline for his stance on homosexuality, he is the most high-profile, and his case has galvanized opposition to official church doctrine which accepts gays and lesbians as members while at the same time calling sex outside of heterosexual marriage "incompatible with Christian teaching."