Same Sex Couples

Posted by on Oct 11, 2014 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Same Sex Couples
Hurray.  This will now be a normative scene in our state!

Hurray. This will now be a normative scene in our state!

Dear Engaged Couples- It’s here!  Finally, gays and lesbians have a legal right to marry and equally happily, I have the privilege and honor to be able to marry them!  Yes, the laws regarding marriage have changed, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling and also thanks to Virginia Attorney General, Mark Herring.  I personally must also thank  the Presbyterian Church, USA (PCUSA).  That church ordained me.  This summer, it made an authoritative ruling that if the state in which a pastor is certified to perform weddings allows same sex couples to marry, then that ordained and state-certified -pastor may indeed marry them. Yesterday I called the Presbytery office just to make sure.  It was just that unbelievable to me.

Today a same sex couple called to ask if I might officiate at their wedding.  I “blessed their union” last year.  So glad that they asked me to officiate at this second, legal exchange of marriage vows.  I told them I would consider it an honor–and it is.

Thank you, Presbyterian Church USA.  Today I am proud to be a Presbyterian!

Thank you, Presbyterian Church USA. Today I am proud to be a Presbyterian!

Congratulations to gays and lesbians who have fought the fight, and finally won.  Sometimes the arc of history does indeed bend toward justice.

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