Gay marriage throws monkey wrench in ECUSA plans
flockwoodYou can’t make this stuff up.
The Executive Council of the Episcopal Church reached an impasse over plans to meet in Salt Lake City because of objections to Utah’s “one-man, one-woman” definition of marriage.
Utah, like 43 other states, has not changed the traditional definition of marriage. Like two dozen or so other states (including California and Oregon) one-man, one-woman marriage is carved into Utah’s constitution.
I am not arguing for or against gay marriage. But if the church embraces this quasi-boycott, they’ll be holding a lot of winter meetings in Iowa and New England — the only places where gay marriages are legally performed.
And the folks in Utah just can’t win. First they were persecuted for their polygamy laws. Now they’re being attacked for their monogamy laws.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Gay marriages are also performed in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire, right? But if they really want to follow the sun, they could go to Mexico City, where gay marriage is now legal.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:45 am
I find it very odd that there is so much talk about the union of gay couples but you hear absolutely nothing about the rate of divorce in mixed gender relationships. I guess it is okay to have multiple partners throughout your life as long as they are not the same sex.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Frank wrote “they’ll be holding a lot of winter meetings in Iowa and New England.” Last time I checked, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hampshire were all in New England.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Mexico City might be a good choice; is there nowhere in the Caribbean that does gay weddings? The Caribbean is primarily Anglican anyway, whereas Mexico is not.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Utah does bear the unique distinction of having a church own a public thoroughfare and arresting people for kissing while passing throught it.
That doesn’t have so much to do with the issue at hand, but with the esteem in which I hold Utah in general.
I imagine that the ECUSA can hold and withhold their meetings wherever they choose.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
No, you can’t make this up. ECUSA makes me yawn. Sin is boring.
October 11th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Or they can go to Canada, where gay marriage has been legal for years. Or even Spain, a very Catholic country that reconginzes that marriage is primarily a civil rights and property issue, not a religious issue. If the religious want to sanctify marriage, they should make divorce illegal.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Gay marriage should be legal.
Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t have one. Simple. =)