With financial support from a gay-rights organization, a Berkeley, Calif., seminary is gathering Episcopal priests to compose a liturgical rite for same-sex couples, The Bay Citizen writes.
The Church Divinity School of the Pacific received a $400,000 grant last month from Michigan’s Arcus Foundation to coordinate the project. The effort is supported by the Episcopal Church, which at its 2009 convention approved the development of “theological and liturgical resources” to confer blessings of same-sex relationships.
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0 Responses to Episcopal Church Crafts New Rite for Gay Couples
mcolin - July 31, 2010 at 7:38 am
This issue is NOT about religion; it’s about CLASS! Gays are a shallow people who are overly concerned with physical attraction and their socio-economic status, which is ironic considering that the upper class has generally always accepted them. Thus I’ll never understand how then could claim to be a true victimized minority considering that they have often made up the establishment. But in their minds, they couldn’t truly be elite members of the American establishment unless the church of the WASP elite (Anglican Church) in this nation accepted them, i.e. The Episcopal Church. Notice that they have not fought hard for marriage equality or for openly gay ministers in other denominations such as the Methodist, Lutheran, Catholic, or Southern Baptist denominations, b/c for them these are churches of the lower class or working class. They really only want acceptance in what they consider to be the elite Episcopal Church; this proves how shallow Gays are. If the issue was really about God and Christianity, Gays would have continued to fight for their cause in other Christian faiths, after all Unitarian churches have accepted GAYS since at least the 1970s. The Unitarian Church, however, wasn’t ELITE enough for the GAYS. So for anyone who thinks they can argue with GATS about why the Episcopal Church is WRONG by using the Bible, you miss the point. Gays don’t care about what the Bible says, they just want to be included in the same society pages that other WASPY Episcopalians are in.
mcolin - July 31, 2010 at 7:45 am
This issue is NOT about religion; it’s about CLASS! Gays are a shallow people who are overly concerned with physical attraction and their socio-economic status, which is ironic considering that the upper class has generally always accepted them. Thus I’ll never understand how they could claim to be a true victimized minority considering that they have often made up the establishment. But in their minds, they couldn’t truly be elite members of the American establishment unless the church of the WASP elite (Anglican Church) in this nation accepted them, i.e. The Episcopal Church. Notice that they have not fought hard for marriage equality or for openly gay ministers in other less-elitist denominations such as the Methodist, Lutheran, Catholic, or Southern Baptist denominations, b/c for them these are churchs of the lower class or working class. They really only want acceptance in what they consider to be the elite Episcopal Church; this proves how shallow Gays are. If the issue was really about God and Christianity, Gays would have continued to fight for their cause in other Christian faiths, after all, Unitarian churches have accepted GAYS since at least the 1970s. The Unitarian Church, however, wasn’t ELITE enough for the GAYS. So for anyone who thinks they can argue with GAYS about why the Episcopal Church is WRONG by using the Bible, you miss the point. Gays don’t care about what the Bible says, they just want to be included in the same society pages that other WASPY Episcopalians are included in.
southernheaven - August 3, 2010 at 12:20 pm
mcolin, your post contains a lot of false stereotypes about gay people and about Episcopalians. First, where do all the gay people who are people of color, blue collar, single moms, immigrants, etc. etc. fit into your opinion that “gays are shallow people who are overly convcened with physical attraction and their socio-economic status….”? Second, why do you think that anybody but Episcopalians are trying to change the Episcopal Church? We gay folk are seeking legal equality. There are plenty of churches who perform religious ceremonies blessing our marriages. We are seeking legal equality, and all the thousands of federal and state rights that accompany legal marriage. Until gay people are provided with the same protections and rights that all heterosexual people enjoy, we are, in fact, a victimized minority. Many of us belong to other minorities as well.