Posted on 01/02/2011 7:58:44 PM PST by marshmallow
The historic marriage of Episcopal Divinity School, dean and president, the Very Reverend Katherine Hancock Ragsdale and Mally Lloyd, Canon to the Ordinary, took place today at the Cathedral Church of St Paul in Boston.
The Episcopalian bishop of Massachusetts began 2011 by solemnizing the first lesbian marriage - of two senior Episcopalian clergy - at Boston's St Paul's Cathedral Saturday (January 1).
The marriage of Episcopal Divinity School, dean and president, the Very Reverend Katherine Hancock Ragsdale and Mally Lloyd, Canon to the Ordinary, was the first lesbian marriage solemnized by the Right Reverend M Thomas Shaw SSJE, Bishop Diocesan of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.
At the marriage attended by close to 400 guests, Bishop Shaw commented: “God always rejoices when two people who love each other make a life long commitment in marriage to go deeper into the heart of God through each other. It’s a profound pleasure for me to celebrate with God and my friends, the marriage of Katherine and Mally.”
The couple met on June 30, 2008, at the urging of a mutual friend. At the time, Canon Lloyd, 57, said, “We were both travelling a lot and so we would talk by phone. And somehow when you talk a lot by phone, a relationship can go deeper more quickly than when you spend time in person. At least that is what happened to us.”
Although this is a second marriage for Canon Lloyd, it is the first for Dean Ragsdale,52. “It’s astonishing how the world is changing,’’ Dean Ragsdale said, “when I grew up, I never believed I would be able to have someone special in my life and now to have almost 400 people show up to support us at our marriage ceremony is wonderful.”
Canon Lloyd says: “We have a lot in...........
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Isaiah 5:20
“Because that when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became in their imaginations,and their foolish hear was darkened.” (Romans 1:21)
“.......and every man did that which is right in their own eyes.”
“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” (Proverbs 16:25)
These people must use a different Bible than mine. This church is no longer a place that God leads but just became a den of snakes. Pray for these people.
Anglican ping
NOT! God will not bless, nor rejoice, at something like this that He condemns so clearly in Scripture. Check out Romans 1, among many other place in the Bible. They are fooling themselves into thinking this pleases God at all!!!
The gay movement taking over government and churches? Yes I think it is an abomination which brings desolation. Especially when this is in relation to church leaderships. The leaders stand in positions in the church where they should not be standing. In doing so they are mocking GOD.
You got that right. The Episcopalian Church is now a complete joke.
I know the Episcopal Church is not teaching the Old Testament and definately not mentioning anything about the story of Sodom and Gomorrah..... =.=
This is what the libs want happening in all Christian churches. Time to unite against them — they are our common enemy
“I am not a member of the Episcopal Church, I’m Catholic. My heart goes out to the members of the Episcopal Church, its enough to bring tears thinking of what has happened to that once great institution.
“ —> well put
It must be terrible watching what these creatures are doing to the Episcopal Church. This must be the final straw in getting Christians out of the ECUSA, I hope
Are you serious?
The Anti-Christ will claim “Christianity” as his faith, at first. It will be this kind that this botched abortion of a woman spews.
I wish they would quit calling my former “church” a church. It’s a lib, gay hangout that talks about the kind of a god that doesn’t exist. This is what libs do when they take anything over. e.g. San Francisco, etc.
Bishop Shaw is a screaming queen himself.
Nah, I googled it and her name — she actually said that. What a sick, sick something.
It’s no longer a church, forget it.
Lesbian marriage LOL they act like it’s the real deal.
this is why I left that church along with my family.
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