Cranmer: On the marriage of lesbians

from Stand Firm by Sarah

I have been interested to see the play that the story of the "marriage" [sic] of two non-celibate lesbians -- the Dean of Episcopal Divinity School and the Canon to the Ordinary -- has received in the Church of England and in other provinces of the Anglican Communion. Over here in TECusa it's old hat at this point -- the natural progression of the gospel of those who are currently leading TEC.

Here's the post on the matter at the Archbishop Cranmer blog [one of my favorite blogs over there in the UK, too], from which the below is excerpted:

The Revd Peter Ould has performed an autopsy on the liturgy used in this service, and determined that it is indeed a marriage ceremony. Like that presided over by the Revd. Martin Dudley in London, the Rt Rev M Thomas Shaw has been content to amend the Prayer Book to accommodate the same-sex union.

And so all references to procreation have been excised.

While this may be nothing new in the US, it illustrates that The Episcopal Church has departed from the traditional Christian understanding of marriage and the orthodox teaching of the Worldwide Anglican Communion.