In a recent survey of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, more than half of the pastors surveyed said they’d have no problem blessing same-sex marriages. That’s the surprising part. What makes it not as much of a surprise is that the survey was conducted in Helsinki, Finland.
The survey, conducted by a group of local [...]
Now that the election is starting to get closer, I’m starting to see a couple of those silly little political signs in people’s yards to show what propositions and candidates they support. One that, thankfully, I rarely see is anyone supporting Proposition 8, the “protection of marriage” proposition in California designed to return marriage to [...]
I suppose it’s one thing for fundamentalist Christians to claim that homosexual marriage somehow harms heterosexual marriage, even though they’ve never been able to demonstrate it, but in this case, they shoot themselves in the foot and then blame gay marriage for their own idiotic actions.
Rachel Bird and Gideon Codding refuse to get a marriage [...]
Even though they’re trying to keep it relatively quiet, we all know that things leak and nothing is ever really private these days. I wrote about the two gay priests who got married at the end of last month, causing an uproar in the Church of England. Now, we’re seeing the theistic whine-fest [...]
A London Bishop has promised to investigate claims that two gay priests walked down the aisle of one of their churches and exchanged rings and vows. The bishop, the Right Rev. Richard Chartres, said such services are not authorized in the Church of England.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, the priests, Peter Cowell and [...]
I should have predicted this but I didn’t. Now we’re seeing the case in Kern County, California where county clerks are going to stop performing all civil marriage ceremonies so they don’t have to marry gay couples.
Clerk Ann Barnett claims there are financial problems requiring her and her staff to stop performing all marriages, [...]