Posted on 06/04/2005 1:27:18 PM PDT by nwrep
The Rev Debbie Gaston and Elaine Cook are among three couples set to have same sex "weddings" in Brighton on December 21.
They will "marry" a second after midnight on the first day the Civil Partnership Bill legalises same sex weddings.
The Rev Gaston, 46, of the Metropolitan Community Church, and Elaine, 53, have been together for 16 years and they have two children.
She said: "As a vicar I obviously believe whole-heartedly in the concept of marriage and I have married more than 30 couples myself.
"Elaine and I have waited many years to be able to make this kind of commitment to each other and we both see the Civil Partnership Bill as a huge step in the right direction for equality.
"However, we are only part way there. Until I can have a legal ceremony in the eyes of God I will not feel completely fulfilled."
They will marry in a joint ceremony with two other gay couples - Gino Meriano and his partner Mike Ullett; and Roger Lewis, a Sussex Police employee and partner Keith Willmott-Goodall.
God send down your wrath upon these two b*tches and please protect their two innocent children who were brought into this sinful relationship.
I find it funny that every other word has scare quotes around it, but I'm easily amused.
Since the Metropolitan Church, in which she is a prieset, is for lesbians and gays, one wonders exactly who those couples were.
Yep, you are right. I wonder if some dude is paying child support? What man in his right mind would give them children?
Ping
You sure the one on the left isn't Bill Clinton in drag?
Interesting church
Lists a wide array of "faiths" including
Bahai, Pagan, Christian Science, Morman, Hindu, Quaker, and others
http://www.escis.org.uk/list.asp?c=2
A church especially for the GLBT community but open to all.
http://www.escis.org.uk/Details.asp?s=&id=17948&count=1&findall=-1&srchfld=0&adv=0&em=0
A pastor who stands for everything, belives in nothing
What religion is this? If they use the bible, did they just skip over Romans?
Why all the square quotes? She is a priest. The other woman is her lover. And they will marry at the moment it becomes legal for them to do so.
What was it that Buford T. Justice said about what the world was becoming?
Maybe it was Archie Bunker.
>>****"Elaine Cook, 53, who is a teacher and has two grown-up children from a previous heterosexual marriage, according to the BBC news."<<
Oh My Heavenly Lord! What is it with ex-teachers??
My ex-teacher sister was married to men twice, she had four children. A few years ago she came out of the closet. Pitifully, she announced it after I made her my oldest child's Godmother.
(and shouldn't it be "Two grown children", not grown-up?)
sheesh.
LOL
Look at those hands! Thats a MAN Baby!
Must be what Rush calls a male lesbian
Many lesbians DO look like men. Some of them are downright scary.
In case you missed it, some of us (Orthodox, Latin and the endangered species of 'Anglo-Catholics' among the Anglicans) have a particularly well defined notion of the Christian priesthood and of marriage which the woman in question and the upcoming event fail to fit. Why the quotes around 'lover' is a mystery to me, since its use in the meaning of one involved in a (usually) illicit consensual sexual liason has been well established for at least a century.
Her god is government. Seems to be that way with all the leftists. Like someone said before, God is not mocked.
Then, she will never feel completely fulfilled. If someone on this earth deigns to provide such a ceremony, I think perhaps God might avert His eyes.
Good gawd, you're right.
ROTFL...all I can say.
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