Posted on 06/12/2008 6:29:35 PM PDT by tcg
On Monday, Episcopal Bishop Marc Handley Andrus, of the Diocese of California (the San Francisco area) issued a pastoral guideline calling for all couples, regardless of sexual orientation, to follow the same pattern for marriage, seeking a civil ceremony first followed by a church blessing.
This will allow, the bishop said, for all couples to enter marriage on the same footing. He is even going to personally volunteer to perform the ceremonies as a Deputy Marriage Commissioner.
In other words, he wants those whose marriages the church can sanction to seek a civil ceremony instead, followed by a church blessing... This week’s actions by the bishop have moved matrimony from innovation to mutilation. No longer is the church seen as a ground of being for marriage, merely frosting on the cake. A couple finds its foundation in a civil ceremony, where God is not mentioned and where grace is nowhere imparted.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
Courageous chap, this.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The Episcopal “Church” is a non-Christian cult masquerading as a church. Their agenda basically is promoting the homosexual lifestyle and replacing the Gospel with following the UN Millenium Development Goals.
Singular. It's violation was erroneous.
Yizak & Rivka were monogamous, and likely the happiest couple of Biblical antiquity.
i.e., Biblical narrative in tension with Biblical law....
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