COWARDLY WEDDING: Anglican Vicar to Wed Younger Male Model
COWARDLY WEDDING: Anglican Vicar to Wed Younger Male Model
by Kilian Melloy
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=&sc3=&id=109400
August 20, 2010
Bobby Egbele and the Rev. Colin Coward
The news that an Anglican vicar in England intends to wed a male model less than half his age has created a stir in the U.K.
Though legal marriage is not available to gay and lesbian families in Britain, civil partnership is. But what has caused a fuss is the intention on the part of the vicar to have his union blessed in the church.
The issues of gay clergy and the question of blessing same-sex unions have roiled the Anglican faith since 2003, when openly gay U.S. Episcopalian cleric V. Gene Robinson was made a bishop. Prior to that, the church was already under strain by the question of women being ordained as clergy. Branches of the Anglican faith in other parts of the world--most notably in Asia and Africa--objected strenuously to gays being allowed to serve as clergy, and to same-sex unions being blessed, but some Episcopalian churches in North America have proceeded with such blessings.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
by Kilian Melloy
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=&sc3=&id=109400
August 20, 2010
The news that an Anglican vicar in England intends to wed a male model less than half his age has created a stir in the U.K.
Though legal marriage is not available to gay and lesbian families in Britain, civil partnership is. But what has caused a fuss is the intention on the part of the vicar to have his union blessed in the church.
The issues of gay clergy and the question of blessing same-sex unions have roiled the Anglican faith since 2003, when openly gay U.S. Episcopalian cleric V. Gene Robinson was made a bishop. Prior to that, the church was already under strain by the question of women being ordained as clergy. Branches of the Anglican faith in other parts of the world--most notably in Asia and Africa--objected strenuously to gays being allowed to serve as clergy, and to same-sex unions being blessed, but some Episcopalian churches in North America have proceeded with such blessings.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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