Britain’s First Anglican Same-Sex Marriage Celebrated in a Scottish Church

Religion News Service ^ | 8/4/17 | Catherine Pepinster

[marshmallow]

LONDON (RNS) — The first gay marriage in an Anglican church in Britain took place this week, a day after Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby described the continuing squabbles over same-sex marriage in the worldwide Anglican Communion as “intractable.”

The gay couple, known as “Mark and Rick,” had their order of service posted on Facebook, which told people that they were married on Tuesday (Aug. 1) at a service that included the Eucharist at St. John’s Episcopal Church in the center of Edinburgh. The Rev. Markus Dünzkofer, rector of St. John’s, a church of the Scottish Episcopal Church, which is part of the Anglican Communion, officiated.

The wedding was “a small intimate occasion,” said Dünzkofer. The couple, he said, were Americans with Scottish connections who had been together 24 years.

“This was not some pretty, fancy occasion,” he said. “They wanted a religious ceremony and they wanted it to be a nuptial Mass.”

In June, the Scottish Episcopal Church, which is part of the Anglican Communion, announced that it was allowing gay weddings after its synod voted to amend its canon law on marriage. The change was made when the synod agreed the law stating that marriage was between one man and one woman should be removed.

Anglican national churches in Brazil, South Africa, South India, New Zealand and Canada have taken steps toward approving and celebrating same-sex relationships amid strong resistance among other national churches within the 80 million-member global body. The Episcopal Church in the U.S. has allowed gay marriage since 2015.

[freedumb2003]

This is nor a “celebration.”

It is an abomination.

[a fool in paradise]

What is there to celebrate about sin?

Why not also celebrate the Christening of the child of an adulterous affair, husband, wife, and mother?

[setha]

What happened there was not marriage.

[Redwood71]

That ought to piss off the Muslims.

rwood

[Peter Libra]

Memories awakened of my travels to Edinburgh many years ago. A major item of interest was the allowed entry to St Giles Cathedral there. The Archbishop of Canterbury in England, had decreed a version of the bible to be read in Scotland. The Scots were highly suspicious and resentful, they had their own version. Legend has it that a woman called Jenny Geddes attended the service in 1637. She threw a prayer stool at the preacher and a riot ensued. Things were never quite the same afterward.

One can only wonder at the absolute effrontery of those who decreed this "marriage". Sure, have a civil ceremony for this kind of union. What has been done goes against the very words of the holy bible. The homosexuals just will not leave institutions alone. More is the pity.

[elcid1970]

Faggies now rule the British Isles. That is, until they’re beheaded by Muslims who already vastly outnumber them.

Farewell, Old Blighty, we hardly knew ye.

[mindburglar]

These people don’t believe in God and neither does the asshole who oversaw this nonsense.

[mindburglar]

No. Muzzies are 5% at best. They just do 99% of the the terrorist shit with the scumbags in the IRA doing the other 1%.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_Kingdom#/search

[Redwood71]

It’s just a matter of time the way the Brits are handling their situation. And you are correct, the largest patroned religion in England is Islam. And for the life of me, I can’t understand why unless the people there are interested in joining a pagan cult that wants to murder people.

rwood