Episcopal Church Approves Same Sex Marriages
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This story came out the same day that christianist slacker who went to jail for failing to do the job she was paid to do in registering marriages. She has finally give up her hypocrisy and has agreed that marriages in her office are all legal, no matter what gender is involved, despite her judgmentalism and previous failure to obey her oath of office.
As a prophet once famously sang, the times, they are a-changin'.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Episcopal Church has completed its embrace of gay rights, changing church law to allow same-sex religious marriages throughout the denomination, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide.
The new policy won overwhelming approval from the top Episcopal legislative body Wednesday, following decades of debate and conflict. It came 12 years after the denomination blazed a trail by electing the first openly gay bishop.
"To finally get to this day is an incredible moment," said the Rev. Cynthia Black, of Morristown, New Jersey, a lesbian who has been campaigning for gay acceptance for years. "It is the beginning. It is not the end. There will still be people excluded, but at least we've gotten to this point."
The vote came in Salt Lake City at the Episcopal General Convention. Many dioceses in the New York-based church of nearly 1.9 million members already had been allowing their priests to perform civil same-sex weddings, using a trial prayer service to bless the couple. Still, the church hadn't changed its own laws on marriage until Wednesday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/01/episcopal-gay-marriage_n_7708470.html