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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2013 file photo, Danyia Bell, 16, left, and Artureana Terrell, 16, react as they read a program after the funeral service for 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton outside the Greater Harvest Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago. Hundreds of mourners and dignitaries including first lady Michelle Obama packed the funeral service for the Chicago teen whose killing catapulted her into the nation's debate over gun violence. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

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Bernice King speaks during a news conference Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Atlanta.at Ebenezer Baptist Church where her father Martin Luther King Jr. preached. King is in a legal battle with her brothers over her father's Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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Bernice King, right, gets a kiss from Albert Brinson as Rev. C.T. Vivian looks on at left during a news conference Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Atlanta, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church where her father Martin Luther King Jr. preached. King is in a legal battle with her brothers over her father's Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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Bernice King speaks during a news conference at historic Ebenezer Baptist Church where her father Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Atlanta. King is in a legal battle with her brothers over her father's Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, FEB. 10, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013 file photo, former United Methodist Pastor Frank Schaefer speaks during a news conference at First United Methodist Church of Germantown in Philadelphia. United Methodist church officials have defrocked Schaefer after he officiated his son's gay wedding in Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, FEB. 10, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - From left, the Rev. Kevin Higgs, Bobby Prince, the Rev. J.R. Finney, Joe Openshaw and retired Bishop Melvin Talbert stand together after Talbert officiated Prince and Openshaw's wedding in Birmingham, Ala. on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2014. The Council of Bishops has called for a formal complaint against Talbert, who presided at the wedding over the objections of a local bishop. (AP Photo/al.com, Greg Garrison)

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, FEB. 10, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013 file photo, former United Methodist pastor Frank Schaefer speaks with reporters after a news conference at First United Methodist Church of Germantown in Philadelphia. United Methodist church officials have defrocked Schaefer, who officiated his son's gay wedding in Massachusetts. The dispute among United Methodists over recognition of same-sex couples has lapsed into a doctrinal donnybrook, pitting clergy who are presiding at gay weddings in defiance of church law against proponents of traditional marriage who are trying to stop them. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)