Episcopalians Vote to Allow Gay Marriage in Churches

The Episcopal Church has shrunk 18 percent over the last decade, after more than a generation of steady decline. His term begins November 1.

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“We also commend the church for electing its first Black presiding bishop, Michael Curry of North Carolina”, said Rev. Flournoy.

In 2015 our challenge to the church was framed in Jesus’ words from the Gospel according to Matthew (5:37) “Let your yes be yes”. “But I think it’s something that you learn to grow into”.

In the runup to the vote, several dozen people spoke at three hearings of the church’s special legislative committee on marriage, as well as in the House of Bishops.

The church’s locks were changed Monday afternoon, barring parishioners and St. James staff members from entering. The decision comes from national church leaders.

A local Episcopal priest said she is “comforted and exhilarated” that the Rt.

“And then put inspiring and enabling them to serve in their personal lives, and for us to witness in the public square, in the front”.

Other denominations are moving in the same direction as Episcopalians.

“What is surprising though is the overwhelming majority in this vote”, Pearson said. “They don’t understand why the church would ever exclude them”.

Robinson told the AP that he was thrilled with the vote on a day that he was not sure he would live to see. We are not of one mind.

Thomas Hager, a member of the A.M.E. Zion church, is the organist for All Saints.

“Marriage between a man and a woman was instituted by God and is central to His plan for His children”, reads the letter by the Church’s highest governing boards, the First Presidency and the Quorum of Twelve Apostles. “A lot of the presidents of the United States have been Episcopalians”. This left the legal question of rightful ownership of the property up to the courts, which ended up siding with the Episcopal Church. How do we make it fulsome and wholesome for all? And on a three-year cycle, those churches will have covered all of scripture, so it’s very unitive.

Gays can now marry within the Episcopal Church. “Nothing will change here at the advent”, said Pearson.

“If our Lord is the son of God…” Those three things are critical and needed in this time. “That’s the Church I pray for”. “It goes against the charity we should be showing fellow Christians”. Jesus becomes the standard by which all our efforts are measured. “That mutual care was present in the conversations we had”. What form that will take, we’ll know at the end of this Convention.

Just days after the USA Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage a constitutional right, bishops in the Episcopal Church have voted to approve such unions performed by its clergy.

Wednesday, the Episcopal Church, which has nearly 2 million members in the USA, announced same-sex couples are permitted to marry in the Church, and have their marriage officially recognized by the denomination. He said the changes “likely won’t take place in more conservative parts of the church, like Dallas, Albany and Orlando.” That vote ignited long-simmering tensions with the church’s more conservative overseas partners and led to a schism that had its epicenter in Pittsburgh with the formation of the Anglican Church in North America.